[86959] in tlhIngan-Hol
Use of -'e' (was Re: The topic marker -'e')
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Mon Nov 23 10:16:06 2009
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:12:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <4B09E2A1.40908@trimboli.name>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
--- On Sun, 11/22/09, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
> Tracy Canfield wrote:
> > If the topic is a compound noun phrase, do both nouns
> take the -'e'
> > ending? Or both? Or neither? For
> example, if you had a sentence
> > like
> >
> > taD DeSDu'Daj 'uSDu'Daj je
> >
> > and you wanted to emphasize "his arms and legs as
> opposed to anything
> > else", or anything else that you usually use -'e' for,
> is the correct
> > form
> >
> > ? taD DeSDu'Daj'e' 'uSDu'Daj'e' je
> > ?? taD DeSDu'Daj 'uSDu'Daj'e' je
> > ?? taD DeSDu'Daj'e' 'uSDu'Daj je
>
> Only the first one is correct.
Not to open a perhaps stale can of worms, but I didn't think you could use {-e'}, or any other Type 5 noun suffix, on a subject. I know TKD's definition of {-'e'} sort of conflates the notions of topic and focus, but do we have any canon examples of subjects with {-'e'}?
-- ter'eS
