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Re: embedded clause as head of relative clause

Teresh000 ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: embedded clause as head of relative clause
• Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:38:46 EDT

In a message dated 9/8/2004 1:14:06 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:
Hegh SuvwI'vetlh 'e' Dalegh. Hegh 'e' vISov jIH je.
Is the following sentence allowed?
Hegh SuvwI'vetlh 'e' Daleghbogh vISov.
?"I know you, who saw that that warrior is dead"?  I would not
personally use {-bogh} like that.  I would at least add {SoH} as
the subject of {Daleghbogh} (but then you have to change {vISov}
to {qaSov}.  

But I think you actually want to say "I know that you saw that that
warrior is dead".  I would translate this as {Hegh SuvwI'vetlh 'e' 
Dalegh 'e' vISov}.  Or, you could use an impersonal construction
and avoid the multiple {'e'}s: {Hegh SuvwI'vetlh 'e' Dalegh net Sov}.

Or, {Hegh SuvwI'vetlh Daleghbogh 'e' vISov} means "I know that
that warrior whom you saw is dead."

-- ter'eS

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