tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 15 13:44:07 2002
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Re: Aw: Re: adverbials
>From: "Stephan Schneider" <[email protected]>
>> if we don't distinguish between a noun and a case-wrapped noun, than
>> one could think (for example, me) that any noun can be but in a
>> nounphrase like "a <noun>". for example, "tree" is a noun, and i'm
>> used to be able to say "a tree". if "because of the night" is a noun,
>> then i would think that it would be able to say "a because of the
>> night".
>
>This is not an issue in Klingon. The language doesn't use articles.
>
>SuStel
>Stardate 2619.6
SuStel, ok, i'm going to adapt what i said in order to make it fit to
a real klingon issue.
if "because of the night" was a normal noun like "night" then i could
say "that because of the night" just like "that night"; but i can't.
i can only say "because of that night", because "because" wrappes the
noun-phrase "night" and "that night", but "because of the night" and
"because of that night" are no noun phrases. they are wrapped
noun-phrases. it would be usefull to distinguish between those
things, don't you think?
<precog>
i know that we can't say *"rammo'vetlh" because "mo'" is type 5 and
"vetlh" is type 4, but _the reason for that_ is that "vetlh" wrapps a
noun-phrase and returns a noun-phrase. and "mo'" wrapps a noun-phrase
and returns an "adverbial", i'd say. anyway, i returns something
different than a noun-phrase. so */mo'vetlh/ is impossible. i just
would like to describe the language without using terms like "type
four", "type five", but with terms like "noun-phrase-wrapper", which
are more plastic, don't you think?
</pregog>
tulwI',
sts.