tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 19 16:21:19 2007
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Re: jIHtaHbogh naDev vISovbe'
qa'vaj wrote:
> Under that assumption, I like your grammatical description.
>
> Does that imply that <pronoun> is not a grammatical sentence, because can't
> the topic be placed in the header as well?
It is unattested; that's all I can say of it.
My description makes the predicative mandatory because we don't know of
any instances of a sentence that is only a pronoun. If one were to
surface, then the predicative would also have to be considered optional.
However, because the topic of the copula is explicitly set at the end of
the sentence, I have doubts that any topic would be allowed to be a
header for a copula at any time.
Fortunately, there are few reasons to use a pronoun all by itself as a
sentence. The primary one is to translate "I think, therefore I am" as
{jIQub, vaj jIH}.
SuStel
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