tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 13 03:17:56 1997
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Re: where do verb suffixes go in comparative clauses?
- From: "Anthony.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: where do verb suffixes go in comparative clauses?
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 11:17:26 GMT
- Organization: Materials Science Centre
- Priority: normal
Anthony.Appleyard wrote:-
> "Korax is fatter than Koloth" is {qoreQ pI' law' qolotlh pI' puS}, as is
> well known. But what if the sentence needs a verb-suffix?
> "Korax seems to be fatter than Koloth" seems to be {qoreQ pI' law' qolotlh
> pI' puS} plus a {-law'} = "apparently" suffix with nowhere obvious to go.
> ...
Someone accepted {qoreQ pI'law' law' qolotlh pI'law' puS} or similar, but in
"In my herd, kill and clean the male targh which is fattest" rejected a
relative clause e.g. {... targh'e' pI'bogh law' Hoch pI'bogh puS ...} or {...
targh'e' pI' law'bogh Hoch pI' puSbogh ...}, as "-bogh changes the whole
aspect of the verb, which -law' does not".
But I do not see that -bogh on the verb changes anything's aspect WITHIN the
clause: it merely says that the whole clause can be treated as a noun, namely
an equivalent of whichever noun inside the clause is marked with -'e'.
And: If this is accepted, is the suffix in the second half of the comparison
necessary?
{beq'e' pI' law'bogh qolotlh pI' puS} the crewman who is fatter than Koloth
{qolotlh pI' law' beq'e' pI' puSbogh} the crewman who Koloth is fatter than