tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 23 21:32:10 1997
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Re: mu'tlheghmey Qatlh
ja' charghwI':
>...I thought Okrand once said that the head noun of a
>relative clause had to be subject or object of the {-bogh}ed
>verb. That's why we can't say "the ship in which I fled".
In HolQeD 4:2, Okrand was asked what the head-noun of a relative
clause can be. He replied "I couldn't make the {-bogh} thing
work for me with anything other than subject or object." Maybe
someone *else* could make it work, but if Okrand couldn't, it's
likely that nobody could. :-)
-- ghunchu'wI'