tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 18 20:26:49 2007
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Re: jIHtaHbogh naDev vISovbe'
- From: qa'vaj <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: jIHtaHbogh naDev vISovbe'
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:25:18 -0600
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On Dec 18, 2007 9:29 PM, David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In the sentence
>
> pa'DajDaq ghaH HoD'e'
> The captain is in his quarters
>
> what English has as a preposition Klingon has, in my analysis, a nominal
> predicative. As before, it's a noun that complements the pronoun. {HoD}
> is not used as the predicative here because {pa'DajDaq} is. This is why
> it's not *{pa'DajDaq HoD ghaH}.
>
> Whether the predicative is a locative or not is irrelevant to the
> analysis of the grammar. All copulas can be described as
>
> <predicative> <pronoun> [topic]'e'
>
>
I agree that the 'predicative' can in the appropriate cases be a noun with
the suffix <<-Daq>>. But I don't see any reason to force that to always be
the case, when the grammar (as I have always used it) works without doing
this. Just a plain old locative in the header slot. Are you going to do
this to all the type-5 suffixed nouns?
What are your proposals for:
pa'DajDaq chachmo' jIHvaD 'oH QIn'e'
jIHvaD pa'DajDaq chachmo' 'oH QIn'e'
--
qa'vaj
qo'lIj DachenmoHtaH