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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Referring to the entire preceding passage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Fri Aug 18 08:56:00 2017
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:56:08 +0200
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Am 18.08.2017 um 14:43 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
> As soon as he finishes his speech/passage, another person wants to ask
> him "how do you know it (this fact) ?
>
> Would it be correct for him to say {chay' DaSov ?} And by the use of the
> prefix {Da-} the {Sov} having as an elided object the entire preceding
> speech/passage ?
Good question. I have three answers to this, with grades of correctness.
a) I would accept {chay' DaSov} with no objection, but I have no
evidence this is correct.
b) Taken the book, there is a way to refer to a previous sentence, maybe
{chay' 'e' DaSov}, but this maybe wrong.
c) To be on a very clean grammatical track, I would suggest to say what
you even used in your question:
{chay' ngoDvetlh DaSov?}
"How do you know that fact?"
--
Lieven L. Litaer
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