tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 16 17:16:17 2003
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Re: KLBC appositionals
> Is this a legal sentence?
>
> {vImaq ngabwI'!}
> I, ngabwI', proclaim it!
>
> More to the point: Can you make a first or second-person subject
> explicit like this?
I think you can't do it that way.
I've got no time now, so the long answer, analysis, and explanation will
follow tomorrow.
My feeling tells me that this should be done using a pronoun
{vImaq jIH, ngabwI''e'}
" Me, I proclaim it, the ngabwI' "
Quvar.
Beginners' Grammarian.
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