tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 27 09:25:20 2002
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Re: tlhIngan Hol lujatlhbogh puq'e'
- From: Nick Nicholas <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: tlhIngan Hol lujatlhbogh puq'e'
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 00:10:44 +1000
jatlh Holtej:
>So, if you're going to add this notion to your description of Klingon
>grammar, you have to justify it. I could also say that Klingon is a
>classifier language, and that all nouns must be marked for size-and-shape
>characteristics of that noun, and further that the verb must change
>depending on the size-and-shape characteristics of the subject and object
>noun. Oh, these markings are non-overt though, so you don't actually SEE
>them, but believe you me, they're there.
A criticism, of course, that plenty of deep-structure accounts of
language (including generative case theory) are just as vulnerable
to; and languages without morphological case don't have to be from
outer space in order to cast them into suspicion...
DaH lut motlhDaq Hotlhlu'bogh pIchegh.
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