tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 06 17:36:26 1999
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RE: KLBG: extra nouns, locative or what?
> Most of the "extra" nouns that just dangle at the beginning of a
> sentence do
> indeed have a type five suffix of some sort, but there are a few
> exceptions.
> One is that <Dat>, <pa'>, and <naDev> are assumed to have a <-Daq> sort of
> built in. The other big exception - the one you ran into - is for
> timestamps. Klingon does not use a syntactic marker for
> timestamps; it just
> plops them down at the beginning of the sentence. It is therefore
> perfectly
> valid to say the following:
>
> DaHjaj jIghung.
> loS ben tlhIngan Hol vIghojchoH.
> nem law' jIqan.
> wa'Hu' ram jIQong.
>
Thanks for the reply. I've done some more thinking about it, and I wonder,
if you left off the explict subject too, would the noun in <<ramvam
vIleghta'>> still implicitly vocative ("I saw it tonight") or would it
become the Object ("I saw this night")?
--John