[2626] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: -ghach
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 19 02:54:23 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: nsn@vis.mu.OZ.AU (Nick NICHOLAS)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 18:47:18 EDT
In-Reply-To: <9401121601.AA23326@uva.pcmail.Virginia.EDU>; from "Will Martin" a
t Jan 12, 94 11:00 am
batlh choja', Will Martin quv:
=On Jan 11, 8:30pm, DSTRADER@delphi.com wrote:
=> If you don't mind, I should now like to come to grips with reality.
=> THERE IS NO SENTENCES-AS-SUBJECTS CONSTRUCTION IN KLINGON!!!!!!!!!!
=> yet.
= I recently worked on this in an off-the-list discussion and suspect I
=may have figured out WHY there is no such construction. I think it is related
=to the way that noun conjunctions FOLLOW the pair (or list) of nouns while
=sentence conjunctions come BETWEEN the sentences.
I know this isn't the most effective way to use bandwidth, but I'd like
to say that I agree with what Will says here, and look forward to pilfering
it for my linguistic description of Klingon next year ;) Incidentally,
yes, "N N je" are a construction I forgot to include in my list of Klingon
wierdnesses. Languages which conjoin nouns like that include Ancient Greek,
Latin, and Sanskrit (though in all three, it was optional.)
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Nick Nicholas, Breather {le'o ko na rivbi fi'inai palci je tolvri danlu}
nsn@krang.vis.mu.oz.au -- Miguel Cervantes tr. Jorge LLambias
