[86720] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Ditransitive reflexives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tracy Canfield)
Wed Oct 28 23:09:15 2009
In-Reply-To: <4AE73793.8020608@trimboli.name>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:02:00 -0400
From: Tracy Canfield <toastrix@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
The color terms might fall into that category of linguistic universals that
aren't UG. All known human languages have words like "drink" and "sun", but
I don't know of anyone suggesting those are part of UG; they're just things
all humans want to discuss. There are some interesting cross-linguistic
patterns for color systems in human languages - and you're right, Klingon
doesn't fit them - but that might have to do with human color perception.
I don't know anything about Klingon color perception, but this is why we
have grant applications.
2009/10/27 David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
> Klingon was designed very intentionally to violate universal
> grammar—since Klingons are not Terrans. Note, for example, {SuD} "be
> blue, green, yellow" and {Doq} "be red, orange," which violate the
> "warm/cold" dichotomy of color in natural language. And consider the
> very phonology of Klingon, which exists in a way that no natural Earth
> language would.
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