tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 23 21:25:49 1999
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Re: {nuqDaq DaDab}
jIja'pu':
>KGT thus implies that the proper form of the question might be {nuq DaDab}.
>With that question, the answer {Shannon vIDab} is almost certainly correct.
>charghwI' was saying that the best form of the answer to {nuqDaq DaDab} is
>a little bit harder to pin down.
ja' peHruS:
>*page* yIngu'
>KGT vIlaD 'ej vIlaDqa' 'ach *implication*vetlh vISampu'be'
Um...{Dab} means "reside at". It already includes the "at" idea. There
is no compelling reason to add that idea to the object of the sentence
using the suffix {-Daq}.
>See also my assertions that {nuqDaq} is a wholly contained question word, not
>{nuq} and a locative. Such assertions point out that a locative answer is not
>required.
I saw your assertion and immediately discounted it, expecting someone else
to point out how strongly it is in error. I should keep count of the times
you assert something that is contradicted by what TKD already says; this is
another one.
TKD section 6.4, page 69:
| The word for "where?", {nuqDaq}, is actually {nuq} "what?"
| followed by the suffix {-Daq} "locative" (see section 3.3.5).
| As would any locative phrase (see section 6.1), it comes at
| the beginning of the sentence.
-- ghunchu'wI'