tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 23 15:20:48 2004
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Re: how long is it?, etc.
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: how long is it?, etc.
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:19:31 +1000
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ghItlh Voragh:
>I'm not sure of your point, since {'uj 'ar} "how many ujes?" is not a
>complete question (that is, it's not a properly formed sentence since it
>lacks a verb), just a noun phrase used as the object of the verb {'ab},
It's not a true QAO as we've come to understand the term, but it's not far
from it. {-bogh} clauses are subordinate, in a similar way to the {S1 'e'
S2} construct. The fact that the sentence containing the question word is
subordinate to another means that the question word becomes relative rather
than interrogative, which may well be meaningless in Klingon. This is true
for both types of sentence.
{Dulegh 'Iv} "who sees you?" > ??{Duleghbogh 'Iv yIngu'} "Identify the
person who sees you!"
{nuq Daghaj} "what do you have?" > ??{nuq Daghaj 'e' vISov} "I know what you
have"
I think this sort of thing is what lay'SIv was trying to get at.
(jImujchugh, HIlughmoH, lay'SIv.)
Savan.
QeS lagh
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' qan je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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