[92713] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] To-Be-Constructions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Sat Mar 31 21:39:29 2012
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:39:13 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <F52986192E9FE346B0B7EF3D6F98E87711C1C9AC@EXDB3.ug.kth.se>
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On 3/31/2012 6:01 PM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
>
> Sojvetlh 'oH nuq'e'? ("What is that food?")
>
> Dochvam nuq? ("What's this thing?")
>
> yIH nuq? ("What is a tribble?")
>
> In all of these cases, it seems that the thing you're being asked to
> describe in more detail is the object.
Only the first example has a subject/topic, and is the only one of these
three to contradict the usual understanding we have. The others are
examples of using question words as pronouns as verbs, and do not have
topics. It doesn't follow the "X is Y" pattern in Klingon, and so is not
a counterexample.
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