tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 05 15:52:41 2006
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Re: adverbials (was Re: KLBC)
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: adverbials (was Re: KLBC)
- Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 08:52:25 +1000
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ghItlhpu' ter'eS, ja': ter'eS:
>My point is that, understanding time- and place-stamps to be
>functional adverbs,...
I think that's a misleading statement. While the nouns may be functioning
adverbially (i.e. modifying a verb), there's a big difference between
"functioning adverbially" and "adverb".
While I can't speak for the time-stamps, we know that the nouns {naDev},
{pa'} and {Dat}, when used as place-stamps, are inherently equivalent to a
noun plus the suffix {-Daq} unless they take another Type 5 suffix: "It is
worth noting at this point that the concepts expressed by the English
adverbs <here>, <there>, and <everywhere> are expressed by nouns in Klingon:
{naDev} <hereabouts>, {pa'} <thereabouts>, {Dat} <everywhere>. Unlike other
nouns, these three words are never followed by the locative suffix." (TKD
27). And we already know that multiple {-Daq} headers can appear on nouns
({tIngvo' 'evDaq chanDaq jIlengpu'} "I've travelled everywhere",
startrek.klingon 21-11-1999), so using place stamps to justify the presence
of multiple adverbials is not a useful argument.
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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