[87063] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Comparatives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Doty)
Tue Nov 24 19:31:58 2009
In-Reply-To: <4B0C63B7.8050204@trimboli.name>
From: Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:30:02 -0800
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 14:52, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
> Christopher Doty wrote:
>>> The sentence should be {nuqDaq waqwIj vIlamHa'choHmoH}. If the space is
>>> in the text, it's an error.
>>
>> Why is it an error? Why can't it be there?
>
> I just checked the text. There is no space there. It reads what I said
> above: nuqDaq waqwIj vIlamHa'choHmoH.
I see that now; the glottal stop character in that font takes up more
space than I am used to, it seems..
> If it *had* been {nuqDaq waqwIj vIlamHa' choHmoH}, it wouldn't make any
> sense according to any rules we know. The first part would be something
> like "where do I be clean my shoes?" The last word would mean "it makes
> it change," and there is no valid connection between these two clauses.
I still think something like this might be okay, but I'll have to
think about it more. I wish I had a corpus to look through....
> Because there isn't one. An adjectival verb is a verb that modifies a
> noun. The only verb in the sentence in the text is "vIlamHa'choHmoH,"
> and that's not modifying a noun. If the sentence *did* contain {vIlamHa'
> choHmoH} with the space, neither {vIlamHa'} nor {choHmoH} is modifying
> any noun, and {choH} isn't even a verb of quality.
Granted, since the final word is a single long one. With the space, I
was considering vIlamHa' to be an adjective, but you're correct, if it
has the other stuff on it, then it isn't.
*grumbles about typefaces*
