tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 27 23:20:58 1996
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Re: Verb quantification: KLBC
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Verb quantification: KLBC
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 01:24:56 -0500
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