[87797] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: tlhIngan Hol audio casting call
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri Feb 5 15:57:09 2010
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:55:32 -0600
In-Reply-To: <6038b7231002051235x3920fb59id53897a2d77680ed@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
qurgh:
>> Here are the sample lines:
>>
>> 1) tlhIngan Hol DajatlhlaH'a'
>> 2) HISlaH, tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhlaH
>> 3) maj. nuqDaq bIH mebpa'mey'e'
>> 4) tlhop yIghoS 'ej qachDaq poS yItlhe'
Andre:
>Shouldn't sentence 3 read as follows:
>3) maj. nuqDaq bIHtaH mebpa'mey.
>
>I think as it was written up there, it's slightly ungrammatical, mainly
>because of the missing -taH. The -'e' may stay of course, but isn't
>necessary, is it?
No, qurgh's sentence is correct.
Generally {-taH} is added to the pronoun-as-verb (PAV) when indicating location... EXCEPT when asking a question with {nuqDaq}. (In fact, there are no examples of {-taH} on a PAV in a question with {nuqDaq} that I know of.) {-taH} on the pronoun may be optional, but not the {-'e'} on an explicit subject noun which is always present.
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
