tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 03 19:23:07 1999
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KLBG: extra nouns, locative or what?
- From: "John M. Dlugosz" <[email protected]>
- Subject: KLBG: extra nouns, locative or what?
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:23:04 -0500
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Howdy. This is my first posting, and the start of my first attempts to read
Klingon. Thanks to the advice passed on by <<When I started, I got some
good advice ... which I'll pass along>> by Voragh from pagh, and thanks to
quljIb for posting a short message that looked interesting and simple.
My first question concerns the first word. So I'm off to a roaring start,
right? The independant clause in question is:
ramvam "The Blair Witch Project" vIleghta'
This is Noun-Noun-Verb, so the first noun (tonight) is the "extra" one, the
second one (movie title) is the object, and the subject (I) is implied by
the suffix of the verb (I saw).
So, why does the first noun just dangle there? Specifically, why doesn't it
require a syntactic marker (ramvamDaq ?) to tie it to the rest of the
clause? Is the above sentence proper Klingon or too-literal of a
translation from English, where we indeed treat "tonight" as vocative in "I
saw the movie tonight."?
--John