tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 31 01:17:03 2001
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Re: was: `dative' / mIStaH pIl'o'
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> > laH cha' nav neHlaw'.
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> The verb {neH} is special. The pronoun {'e'} isn't used when {neH} is the
> second verb of a Sentence As Object construction. Try reading it again,
> keeping that in mind.
'ughlaw' nach HomwIj. jIHmo' yItuv.
> if <cha'> is verb in an object sentence, wouldn't it still need a syntactic
> marker like <-bogh>? (paper which shows ability, for showing ability) could this
> approximate a dipomaor certification?
> *ballpark-Daq jIHtaH'a'?
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> >loQ jImISlI'. Do you mean two negatives mean a positive, two negatives
> >are the
> >negative emphasized or two negatives are ungrammatical, therefore forbidden?
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> A single negative is enough to negate the idea. A second negative tends to
> negate the negation, thus saying something close to a positive. There are
> languages where a negation idea requires "negative" grammar in multiple
> places in a sentence, but Klingon is not one of them.
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DaH, loQ jIyaj.
tuch'a' pab 'utlhpu'?
pIl'o'