tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 21 08:53:07 2007
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Re: nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e'?
- From: McArdle <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e'?
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:43:56 -0800 (PST)
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--- Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> But again, as we've both remarked, the spoiler is:
>
> pa' 'oHtaH vaS'a''e'. tlhIngan qum waw' 'oH.
> This is where the Klingon Great Hall is located,
> the center
> of the Klingon government. S27
>
I suspect this isn't the conundrum it seems. It may
be that the identification of the Great Hall as the
center of government is seen not as contingent or
temporary but as true by definition: the {vaS'a'} is
the center of government regardless of its location.
Thus the absence of {-taH} in the second sentence is
necessary. The first sentence has {-taH} either
because the location is seen as a (possibly) temporary
attribute (the Great Hall used to be across town,
and/or they're breaking ground next week for a
replacement Great Hall up the street), or because
>
> The way I read this is that pronoun-as-verb
> statements of location require
> {-taH} on the pronoun, but questions of location
> (i.e. those with {nuqDaq}
> "where?}) do not. Whether the location is temporary
> or permanent seems to
> be irrelevant.
-- mI'qey
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