tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Apr 12 19:18:03 1997
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Re: KLBC
- From: [email protected] (Christian Weisgerber)
- Subject: Re: KLBC
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 02:10:40 +0200 (CEST)
jatlh Michelle:
> Does anyone know how case is assigned in Klingon [...]?
Klingon is an agglutinating language, not an inflecting one. It doesn't
have cases. In fact, the only feature of Klingon that I would consider
an inflection are the verb prefixes. The closest thing to cases tlhIngan
Hol has are the type 5 noun suffixes.
(Of course, if you insist on forcing classical, latin-based grammar onto
Klingon, you could define nominative/accusative/genitive, which are
marked by... nothing at all... plus five cases (locative, causative, and
a few I wouldn't know how to name) marked by the respective suffixes. It
doesn't buy you anything but pointless additional complexity, but then I
recall an English grammar that insisted on declining English nouns in
four cases...)
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