tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 27 17:47:50 2000
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Re: Grammar Highlight Each Day (bo-)
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Grammar Highlight Each Day (bo-)
- Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 20:47:32 EST
In a message dated 12/23/2000 9:42:09 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
> >> I disagree. The verb should have *no* subject; the noun created by {-wI'}
> >> becomes the subject, and can certainly be plural.
> >>
> >as my own example shows, I made a mistake w.r.t. sg/pl, but the
> >verb cannot have a 1st or 2nd person subject, qar'a'?
>
> If you wish to consider that {-wI'} fits on a verb having an overt subject,
> I don't see a reason for you to limit it to third person subjects.
> Assuming {luHoHwI'} is acceptable, what would be different about
> {DaHoHwI'}? There doesn't seem to be a distinction in the grammatical
> basis for "they who kill him" and "you who kill him".
>
> Of course, I don't see any such grammatical basis in the first place.
>
> >(you make the *additional* claim that it "should have *no* subject")
>
> It's not an "additional" claim. It's an explicit *lack* of extension from
> the way {-wI'} is described and used in The Klingon Dictionary.
>
>
Grammar Highlightvo' SutlheDpu'. per chu' yIlo'!
QInwIj wa'DIchDaq qechmeyvam pIm vIqelbe'. DaH jIjeSqangbe' je jIH.
peHruS