tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 10 06:07:51 1997
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RE: KLBC: nominalizing a verb with object
ja' SuStel:
>...You're not really taking the
>phrase {'u' che'} "he rules the universe" and adding {-wI'} to *all* of it,
>you're constructing it anew, with the separate words {'u'} and {che'wI'}.
[jIjatlhbe'taH :-)]
>> A similar problem arises when I want to tell about my job. I'm a
>> mathematician;
>> so {mI'QeD} for "mathematics" would be acceptable (although a more precise
>> equivalent would be "arithmetic", but this is not the point).
>> I can't derive
>> some-
>> thing like {mI'QeDwI' jIH} since {mI'QeD} is a noun. Have I got to say
>> something
>> like {mI'QeD vIHaD}, which could mean I'm a student instead of a searcher?
>
>Well, you could say {mI'QeD ghojmoHwI' jIH} "I am a number-science teacher."
>But you wouldn't want to say {mI'QeD jIH}, because this means "I am
>mathematics."
>
>Another possibility: {mI'QeD tej jIH}.
{mI'tej jIH} seems quite appropriate without the {QeD}.
Anything with {QeD tej} feels redundant to me.
-- ghunchu'wI'