[443] in tlhIngan-Hol
ghIQghachwIj
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 11 11:36:47 1993
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Errors-To: tlhIngan-Hol-request@village.boston.ma.us
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: Allan C. Wechsler <ACW@RIVERSIDE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:23-0500
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.05.9301090950.A17345-9100000@stein.u.washington.edu>
I hope the official grammarians will forgive my picking a couple of nits
from your otherwise well-combed vacation report.
Instead of <yuQ tera'nganDaq> "on the Terran planet", you can just say
<tera'Daq> "on Terra". (Also note that <tera'ngan> "Terran" is properly
a noun, not an adjective; the suffix <-ngan> apparently means "denizen
of". But the N-N construction probably saves you.)
You have a habit of using <vI-> instead of <jI-> with intransitive
verbs. Since you usually do this with prepositional phrases, the
probable explanation is that you are counting these as third-person
objects. I believe they do not count. Unless you want to say things
like "On Terra I vacationed it", stick with <jI->.
I'm not /sure/ of this, but I think you have to say <Dalqu' tachmey>
instead of <tachmey Dalqu'>. It's /plausible/ that one is allowed to
front the subject of an intransitive verb, especially of a verb with
adjectival meaning; the construction is unambiguous if it is allowed.
But we are never told that it is allowed, and I think subject-last is
the safest rule.
