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Re: Positioning for emphasis

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Positioning for emphasis
• Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:04:00 EDT
• Cc: [email protected]

In a message dated 9/14/2007 7:42:35 AM Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> On 9/14/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> > Klingon has a very rigid word order.  It's OVS.
> 
> It does let you front a topic, though, so I daresay one could replace
> {yaS qIp puq} "the child hit the officer" with {puq'e' yaS qIp} "As
> for the child, (it) hit the officer". I don't think you'd have to use
> a resumptive pronoun.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Philip Newton <[email protected]>
> 

I don't think you even could use a resumptive pronoun (which I've never heard 
used in connection with Klingon).  A pronoun in the position of a resumptive 
pronoun would likely be considered a different entity from the one in the 
fronted topic.

But yes, topics can be used for emphasis.

{jIlugh'a'?}

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