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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] 'e'mo'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Sun May 20 10:34:45 2012
In-Reply-To: <CA+7zAmPHPwMPDvfbEjPp2ziro6oQaNo1E8BeBS-EdeSD3=dbww@mail.gmail.com>
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 07:34:07 -0700
To: De'vID jonpIn <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
Cc: KLI <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
I was about to say that I've heard it in speech, but wouldn't condone it in writing. It's like appended locatives and -meH clauses, something that comes out when you're talking and people understand, but you'd never write down.
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On 2012-05-20, at 7:24, "De'vID jonpIn" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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'?}
>
> --
> De'vID
>
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