tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 26 17:32:42 2004
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Re: core semantic case roles: agent, patient, focus
From: "...Paul" <[email protected]>
> I'm thinking, the example of /Doq/ -- it doesn't make sense to say
> /yIDoq/, but it does make sense to say /yIDoq'eghmoH/.
I disagree. It *does* make sense to say things like {yIDoq}, but we are
told by Okrand in KGT that Klingon doesn't work that way: it requires
{yIDoq'eghmoH}. This is an arbitrary feature of the language, not one that
is required for it to make sense.
We're seeing a lot of "this doesn't make sense" and "this only makes sense
if" declarations in this topic, but the fact is that most people can come up
with a sense for just about any otherwise grammatical construction. Whether
or not you can make sense of it is a poor indication of whether you can
actually say something.
SuStel
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