tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 30 19:43:48 1997
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Re: Direct address (was Re: KLBC: imperatives)
ja' Holtej:
>> ...You can't find a place to invoke apposition in {HoD tujqu'choH QuQ}.
>
>I'm not sure I follow you. Why can you not use apposition in your sentence?
Because I said {tujqu'choH}, not {tujqu'moH}. {tuj} doesn't have an
object here; {HoD} cannot be interpreted appositively.
>Apposition is simply an NP that acts as a parenthetical expression, to add
>more information about the main NP (which can be in any normal NP
>position).
But there is no NP here to add to parenthetically.
>If you meant something else, then I'm confused.
You *are* confused, but only because you misread my sentence.
-- ghunchu'wI'