tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 07 12:28:24 2000
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(KLBC) 'e' as a subject
- From: Nicolau Rodrigues <[email protected]>
- Subject: (KLBC) 'e' as a subject
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 15:27:46 -0500
Although in the canon I know I don't have any exemple of the use of {'e'} as substitute of a previous sentence (that is, as object), I have seen it a lot of times. Just two exemples from {Qo'noS QonoS 1}:
'angghal says:
{wej Dochmey yIyajnIS neH: DIpmey wotmey chuvmey je.
'e' yIqaw 'ej tugh bIpo'choH} here we can see {'e'} replacing {DIpmey wotmey chuvmey je}.
and HoD Qanqor says:
{taH'a' malja' wej 'e' vISovchu' 'ach 'e' vIpIH}
first {'e'} substitutes {taH'a' malja'} and later it means {taHjaj malja'}.
My question is: can an {'e'} takes the place of the subject, when it is elsewhere explicited? In TKD page 65 Okrand says "('e' and net) are always treated as the object of the verb, and the verb always takes a
prefix indicating a third-person singular object".
It's clear, but let's imagine a sentence like:
{tlhon Say'moH Humanpu', tIghchaj 'oH 'e'}
"Humans clean their nostrils, that's their custom"
Is it right?
ghaHbe'wI'
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