tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 15 05:06:47 2009
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Re: Questions with law'/puS
On Jul 14, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Doq wrote:
> You are ignoring that {-be'} is a suffix that can be used on verbs
> used as adjectives, as in {cha' yIH lI'be'}.
I don't think he's ignoring it. It's just irrelevant to the point
he's making. I think he's reading Okrand's half-literal translation
of the {A Q law'be' B Q puSbe'} as evidence that the {law'} and {puS}
can be treated like any other verb in a regular Klingon sentence.
I accept that as a valid argument, but I do not find it a convincing
one. Even in this case, the utterance is called a "construction",
not a "sentence". Its grammar is exceptional. We cannot confidently
apply to it anything we know about verb suffixes in general.
-- ghunchu'wI'