[96107] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Dante qul'a'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Fri Apr 26 06:56:00 2013
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:55:18 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <CA+7zAmOiqiG08WWtxPnjdDG=XxXTsOmb3hzdOOieiUT=hin-9g@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On 4/26/2013 4:45 AM, De'vID wrote:
>> nIqolay:
>>> Some of the postings I'd read were interpreting it as a quantity noun like
>>> Hoch et al., meaning "each, taken one at a time".
>
> Voragh:
>> If you look at the examples you'll see that {ngIq} is always first word in the clause, i.e. in the adverbial position:
>
> I thought it was an adverbial too, until 'ISqu' and others corrected
> me, who had apparently heard from Okrand himself that it's a noun at
> the qep'a' where they did the proofreading. The fact that it's the
> first word in every example we have seems to be only a coincidence.
It's the first word because time stamps go at the beginning of a
sentence. It works just like any other time stamp noun, e.g., DaHjaj.
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