tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 14 03:28:17 1997
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Re: chay'
- From: Ivan A Derzhanski <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: chay'
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:26:18 -0800
- Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science
- References: <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> A prevalent pattern in Earth languages, from the several I have delved
> into, nowhere near all that exist, is that the word for "how" does a
> verb's action occur also asks "how" a stative verbs degree is measured.
{'ar} 'oSbogh mu'mey'e' lo' je tera' Holmey law'qu'. 'ach Do'Ha'
*{'ar jen qach} *{jen 'ar jach} je tuchlaw' _tKD_ 6.4.
latlh jatlhpa' Hol chenmoHwI' ghaHbogh MO'e', ratlh {chay'};
it does seem to make syntactic sense, since it patterns as an adverb:
(1) chay' Haw' yaS? nom Haw' ghaH.
(2) chay' jen qach? loQ jen 'oH.
(1) yu'lu'DI', {'avlu'chu'be'} janglaHba' je vay'. So {chay'}
is ambiguous. So what? Question words often are.
> Finally, I resent your having been the first to reply. [...]
> jIHvaD bIjangqa'pa' maja'chuq ghomvam jIH je 'e' vIchup.
<ghojchoHwI'pu' ghaHmo' SuStel'e', jabbI'ID jangpa' ghaH jang latlh
'e' loSnIS> Dajatlh DaneH'a'? qatlh DaQub, DaQubchugh? ghomvamDaq
qochbej ghaH je.
--'Iwvan
--
"mIw'e' lo'lu'ta'bogh batlh tlhIHvaD vIlIH [...]
poH vIghajchugh neH jIH, yab boghajchugh neH tlhIH"
(Lewis Carroll, "_Snark_ wamlu'")
Ivan A Derzhanski <[email protected], [email protected]>
Dept for Math Lx, Inst for Maths & CompSci, Bulg Acad of Sciences
Home: cplx Iztok bl 91, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria