tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Dec 02 14:43:50 1999
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Re: adverb suffixes???
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: adverb suffixes???
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 17:43:11 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
- Priority: NORMAL
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 16:40:18 EST [email protected] wrote:
> jatlh charghwI':
> >I could also see a strange use of {pa'Ha'}, as in:
> >
> >1: Qanqor wISamlaHbe'. Dat wInejpu'!
> > [We can't find Krankor. We've looked for him everywhere!]
> >
> >2: tachDaq bonej'a'?
> > [Did you look for him in the bar?]
> >
> >1: toH! pa'Ha' wInejpu'!
> > [Argh! We've looked for him everywhere else!]
>
> Couldn't the last sentence be changed to:
>
> toH! pa''e' neH wInejbe'pu'.
> Direct translation: Argh! There is the only place we haven't looked for him.
In this case {pa'} is an adverbial, not a noun and cannot take
{-'e'} unless you want to say "the room" instead of "there". You
also can't use {neH} as an adverbial to modify {pa'} as an
adverbial.
It is odd that he chose to make {pa'} an adverbial, but {naDev}
a noun, but hey, I didn't write this language...
> - DujHoD
charghwI'