tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 14 21:23:32 1996

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RE: KLBC: Translation

Nick Nicholas writes:
>I still disagree, because I think this is an unduly restrictive reading of
>TKD. The dictionary says ghoS *and other directional verbs* need not take
>-Daq. As far as I can see it, if one directional verb other than ghoS can
>take no -Daq, it's jaH. David and I have locked horns on this in Much Ado,
>and I've referred it to Mark for arbitration :-) .

I don't think it's a matter of {-Daq} being optional; it's a matter of
whether the place word is being used as a locative or an object.
I'll point out the canonical {may'Daq jaHDI' SuvwI' juppu'Daj lonbe'}
(TKW page 38).  {jaH} here doesn't have an object; it uses a locative.
We know for sure that {ghoS} goes either way (TKD page 28), but we do
not know that {jaH} can be treated similarly.  My policy is to err on
the conservative side.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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