[2873] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: syntactic anomaly
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Jan 30 12:23:04 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: dls9@aol.com
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 94 12:20:29 EST
To avoid overusage of pronominal verbs and unnecessary usage of the
nominalizer, I've come up with a few suggestions for what once was {taH pagh
taHbe' 'e' 'oH tlhobghach'e'}:
{taH pagh taHbe' net tlhob}
This altho goes a bit against the view of double verb constructions when one
of the verbs is a verb of "speaking," like {tlhob} here. With {neH} we've
basically concluded that {'e'} is optional but almost never used in spoken
Klingon (unless refering back to someone else's statement). However, with
{tlhob}, it could be another story altogether, since this verb is unique in
that it, along with its comrade 'speaking' verbs, can precede its quote.
Including the SENTENCE-tlhob construction with other double verb
constructions just might not be a very safe view now.
How about {taH pagh taHbe' vItlhob}, with those interrogative markers being
implicit or something...
Just throwing out ideas. Nothing to seriously consider yet...
Guido#1, Leader of All Guidos
