tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 01 20:02:08 1999
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Re: : Imperative prefixes
jIja'pu':
>{Ha'} certainly qualifies as a "first-person imperative" in my book.
>I also think {DaH} can help to give an imperative flavor to a phrase
>like {maHIv}, either in its normal position at the front of the sentence,
>or as a separate adverbial utterance.
>
>{maHIv -- DaH!} sounds to me like it's intended as a command addressed
>to the first-person plural. :)
ja' peHruS:
>yIyep, ghunchu'wI'. wot moHaq *tableDaq mu' {Ha'} DaSamlaHbe' 'e' vIHar.
moHaq 'oH jIja''a'? mu' naQ vIqelbej 'ej mu' naQ vIghItlhba'.
>vay'vaD ra'meH mu' 'oHbe'.
ra'be''a' "Come on! Let's go!"? ra'bej jatlhwI' 'e' vIQub jIH, vIQoyDI'.
>*imperative 'oHbe' 'ach *hortatory exclamation chuv 'oHba'.
My understanding of the word "hortatory" leads me to consider it a
request for action, an attempt to cause someone to do something. Is
that not an imperative? My belief that {Ha'} is an imperative endures.
>mu'tlhegh 'ay'vaD *flavor chellaH, jIQochbe'.
vaj chenmeH "imperative" qech 'utbe' moHaq le' 'e' DaHar je SoH, qar'a'?
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh