tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 09 14:21:51 2009
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Re: Questions with law'/puS
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Questions with law'/puS
- Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:19:18 -0700 (PDT)
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--- On Thu, 7/9/09, David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Eh? What would *{tlhIngan HoSghaj'a' vIlegh} mean? "I see
> the Klingon
> who may or may not be powerful"?
>
We're talking about two different things: adjective verbs used descriptively, as adjectives, vs used attributively, as predicates. I was talking about predicate use, as a verb. Of course, an interrogative on an adjective doesn't make any sense.
>
> It was in KGT, where Okrand is telling us about special
> exceptions to
> the usual law'/puS construction. law'be'/puSbe' is a
> specially
> sanctioned formation, and not evidence of a general trend
> of using verb
> suffixes.
Did he come out and say in KGT that there are no other allowable suffixes?
>
> It's special. It can't be interpolated or expanded. It must
> remain
> fixed. Period. Done. Game, set, and match. rIntaH.
>
Absence of evidence /= evidence of absence.
-- ter'eS
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