[91060] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Noun cases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Newton)
Wed Nov 30 10:01:46 2011
In-Reply-To: <4ED63A20.6040603@trimboli.name>
From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:01:10 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 15:13, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 8:20 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
>>
>> Klingon doesn't have declensions; it's agglutinative.
>
> Agglutination and declension are mutually exclusive? Isn't the inflection of
> a noun by agglutinative suffixes a declension?
Also, if we take "declension" to be "declension class" (as in "the
Latin fourth declension"), Klingon arguably has that, too... three
noun classes, each with its own separate form of the plural marker
-mey -Du' -pu'. And with each noun belonging to a specific class,
yielding things such as {jIb Ho'Du'} even though the teeth of a comb
are not (usually...) a body part.
But then there is {tIqpu'}, and the "scattered all about" of {puqmey}
and the like, which makes such a Latinate analysis messy.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
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