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Re: QamvIS Hegh, torvIS yIn

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• Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:39:29 -0400 (EDT)
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> > QamvIS Hegh qaq law, torvIS yIn qaq puS.
>   "Better to die on our feet than live on our knees." ST6
>  
> SuStel:
> : This is a really weird sentence.  What is it doing?  Are /Hegh/ and /yIn/
> : nouns or verbs? If nouns, the law'/puS construction isn't too strange, but
> : the you've got a subordinate clause modifying a noun, not a verb.  If they
> : are verbs, then the subordinate clauses work, but the law'/puS is wrong.
> 
> Although Okrand analyzed it as:
>   "Dying while standing is preferable to living while kneeling"
> in TKW (p.95), it makes more sense to me viewing them as nouns:
>   "Death while standing is preferable to life while kneeling"

But as SuStel points out, the V-(taH)vIS would then be modifying a noun.


DloraH

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