[85761] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Once more into the ship in which I fled
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Sat Jun 20 15:40:59 2009
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:38:29 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <913863.68670.qm@web82604.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Terrence Donnelly wrote:
> Not to be a contrarian or anything, but what about the proverb
> {meQtaHbogh qachDaq Suv qoH neH}? I know MO originally said he
> couldn't make relative clauses work as anything but subjects or
> objects, except here he did.
He couldn't make the head noun of a relative clause be anything other
than the subject or object *of the relative clause*, not of the main
sentence.
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