[83943] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Topic (was Re: Specifying distance traveled)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Anderson)
Fri Jan 11 22:49:03 2008
In-Reply-To: <BAY127-W611917AF83A4FC5BCC101AA4B0@phx.gbl>
From: Alan Anderson <aranders@insightbb.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:42:42 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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ja' QeS 'utlh:
>
> ghItlhpu' Doq, ja':
>> Reading again all that you have assembled and looking more closely at
>> all the canon, it seems that {-'e'} is only used for emphasis.
>
> I still believe that the example from ST5 (viz. {qIbDaq SuvwI''e' SoH
> Dun law' Hoch Dun puS}) is an example of {-'e'} used to topicalise
> rather than emphasise.
jIQochbe'.
> It's the only incontrovertible usage of {-'e'} as a
> header noun,...
jIQochchoH.
The definition of "header noun" in this forum has always invoked the
structure of normal O-V-S sentences. Its meaning is not clearly
applicable to comparatives/superlatives.
