[86697] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Ditransitive reflexives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Tue Oct 27 13:11:04 2009
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:08:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <1cb7130b0910270656m5203c022hddbf664da1d1f62@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
--- On Tue, 10/27/09, Tracy Canfield <toastrix@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks! I appreciate the
> information.
> The lack of anaphora (pronouns like "themselves" or "each
> other") in Klingon
> is especially striking because the linguistic structures
> which control where
> they can appear in human languages are part of universal
> grammar, which is
> generally agreed to be hardwired in the brain. At the
> very least, it raises
> interesting questions for further research on government
> and binding in
> Klingon.
>
Well, Klingon is supposed to be alien. Even if universal grammar applies to humans, there's no reason why it would necessarily apply to non-human sentients 8+) .
-- ter'eS
