tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 26 20:18:11 2009
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Re: The topic marker -'e'
- From: Christopher Doty <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: The topic marker -'e'
- Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:15:45 -0800
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I'm not sure exactly what I meant there (I blame the relatives again),
but I think it was this.
The difference between "a for him knife" and "a knife for him" in
English is that the first one is ungrammatical: "for him" can't be an
adjective. We see the same thing in Klingon (from my perspective):
<ghaHvaD taj> is fine ("a knife for him"), but <taj ghaHvaD> is bad: a
noun with -vaD can't go after a noun to modify it, as a verb of
quality/quantity could. You have to put it before the noun. But,
it's also expressly not part of a noun-noun construction.
I dunno, I am full of food and feel like we're at a dead end here. I
still just don't see how <ghaHvaD taj> and the like is a problem, and
I haven't seen anything here that convinces me otherwise.
Do you think <ghaHvaD taj 'oH> is bad as well?
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 18:19, Mark J. Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
> Indeed. How can it be read any other way but "for him" modifying
> "knife"? Certainly that's how you'd diagram the phrase in English: an
> adjectival prepositional phrase modifying "knife". (With some context
> it could be adverbial instead, modifying something else...)
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> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:14 PM, David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Christopher Doty wrote:
>>> It's not, e.g., 'a for-him knife', it's 'a knife for him.'
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>> What's the difference?
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