tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jul 29 03:56:24 2006
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Re: pronouns
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: pronouns
- Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:55:47 +1000
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jIghItlhpu', jIja':
>In Hebrew (I believe; Voragh would be able to confirm or correct this) the
>copula is most usually given simply by apposition,
mujang Voragh, ja':
>Not usually.
Qu'vatlh! DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'.
jIghItlhtaH, jIja':
>While I can't think of a language that uses a pronoun-as-copular-construct
>in the same way as Klingon does (although Russian might come close), I also
>can't think of a single natural language that has a regular copula. {{:)
mujangtaH Voragh, ja':
>Though I wouldn't call it "conjugation" - perhaps "agreement" is better -
Indeed, as the term "conjugation" usually implies specifically verbal
inflection.
>the use of pronouns as copulas in Hebrew and Arabic pretty much mirrors
>that of Klingon.
Israel Hol jatlh Marc Okrand, qar'a'?
>{rom} "agreement} may not be the right term in Klingon, however:
> Klingon grammarians refer to the rule that governs the use of
> pronominal prefixes as the rule of {rom} (literally, "accord").
I've always used the term {rom chut} "the law of accord" only to describe
pronominal prefix agreement. Nonetheless, it would be interesting to know
how Klingon grammarians describe the pronoun-as-verb "agreement": {DIpvaD
tam rom chut le'}?
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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