tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 31 10:25:06 1999
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RE: KLBC: Hol vI'lo 'e' vInID (jav)
- From: "d'Armond Speers" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Hol vI'lo 'e' vInID (jav)
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:22:29 -0700
> A general-purpose partitive "of" seems to be missing from Klingon grammar.
> So far as I can find, we have examples only of {nIn Hoch} "all the fuel"
> and {tera' vatlh DIS poH cha'maH wej HochHom} "most of the 23rd Century".
> It's probably significant that both of these use a noun-noun construction
> and not an adjectival verb, as N1-N2 can be translated as "N2 of the N1".
There're also two examples in TKD, p. 54:
mulegh cha'
"Two (of them) see me."
wa' yIHoH
"Kill one (of them)!"
These are definitely partitives, presuppositional (not cardinal,
existential). This observation, plus the {HochHom} example cited above, led
me to write the article on quantified noun phrases in HolQeD 5:3.
-- Holtej 'utlh
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