[93294] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] 'e'mo'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID jonpIn)
Sun May 20 10:24:14 2012
In-Reply-To: <20A06D9E-2132-4578-BAF3-BDAD95743BF7@alcaco.net>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 16:24:00 +0200
From: "De'vID jonpIn" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
To: KLI <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
De'vID:
>> This is probably a simple point of grammar that I've forgotten but can
>> the pronoun {'e'} take suffices?
ghunchu'wI':
> We've never seen {'e'} with a suffix.
But it's a pronoun and we've seen other pronouns with suffixes.
However, {'e'} and {net} seem to be different than other pronouns.
De'vID:
>> For example, is {'e'mo'} "because of that [i.e., the previous sentence]" legal?
ghunchu'wI':
> Why not just put the suffix on the verb and not use {'e'} at all?
If I was writing and could revise my sentence, that's what I would do.
This came up because I wanted to say something, and I'd already said
the first sentence, paused, and then I realised I wanted to add {-mo'}
to the first verb and continue with a second part. I wondered if I
could've salvaged the situation by continuing {'e'mo'...}.
Also, I think {'e'} could refer to another person's just-spoken
sentence in a conversation (we have from ST:VI {'e' neHbe' vavwI'}).
So conceivably someone could want to add a suffix to {'e'} because the
pronoun is referring to something someone else said, e.g.,
A: {mutIchpu'}
B: {'e'mo' DaHoH'a'?}
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De'vID
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