tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 07 06:45:52 2006
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RE: KLBC DIS chu'
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC DIS chu'
- Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:45:41 +1000
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ghItlhpu' ter'eS, ja':
>Another alternative I like to use with paired adjectives
>isn't strictly canon but seems to have general acceptance:
>{valbogh loD qan}
jang Lawrence, ja':
>I like this because it reminds me of the useful concept once
>made by Dr. Herb Clark, a psycholinguist at Stanford University.
>Clark pointed out the distinction between "given" and "new"
>information in sentences like:
Yes, it seems reasonable to apply the given/new distinction to this sort of
adjectival construct. Perhaps that's why I like it as well, since that seems
to be how I've used it in the past: old information in the
stative-as-adjective, new information in the stative-as-relative.
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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