tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 04 18:09:14 2010
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Re: qoSwIj
- From: Christopher Doty <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: qoSwIj
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 18:07:16 -0800
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Actually, this is interesting (linguistically, sorry), since <DaHjaj>
could be construed as either an adverb or a subject... Thus, it seems
that both
<DaHjaj qoSwIj 'oH>
and
<qoSwIj 'oH DaHjaj'e'> are potentially valid.
Anyone have examples of adverbials in predicate-nominal constructions?
Chris
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 16:45, Christopher Doty <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 14:45, David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The correct way to say "My birthday is today" is {DaHjaj 'oH qoSwIj'e'}.
>> The {-'e'} is required in any "to be" sentence.
>
> Well, technically, the <-'e'> is only required in sentences where the
> subject is a full noun phrase as opposed to a pronoun, but yeah...
>