tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 01 09:18:08 1996
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Re: Verb quantification: KLBC
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- Subject: Re: Verb quantification: KLBC
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 03:06:17 -0400
In a message dated 96-06-28 02:26:13 EDT, ghunchun'wI' writes:
>peHruS writes:
>>Second post: I am trying to find out how to ask questions which quantify
>>verbal action. Perhaps I will need to know how to answer such questions,
>>also.
>
>Simple answer: In general, I don't know. Specific questions often have
>obvious or otherwise unambiguous translations, but there doesn't seem to
>be a "rule of grammar" for asking how large something is, or how green,
>or how heavy. The degree to which something has a quality or condition
>isn't an idea for which we have examples to follow.
>
>*** WARNING *** The following is utter speculation on my part ***
>
>Perhaps the general question can be formed like a comparative?
>
>bIQtIQvam tIQ law' 'ar tIQ puS?
>loDvetlh jen law' 'ar jen puS?
>luchchaj 'ugh law' 'ar 'ugh puS?
>
>The word order is strange in a {law'/puS} construction anyway; that's my
>"justification" for putting {'ar} where I did.
>
>-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj
Doesn't {'ar} have to follow a Noun?
peHruS