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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Dante qul'a'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Fri Apr 26 07:17:30 2013
In-Reply-To: <517A5D16.6060509@trimboli.name>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:17:10 +0200
From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
To: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
>> 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:
De'vID:
>> 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.
SuStel:
> 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.
I'm not sure how {ngIq} ("each one"?) works as a "time stamp"? Perhaps
you are thinking of {ghIq} (which is an adverbial)?
For example, {ngIq raQ -150 QaS} "outposts cost 150 each" is not even
a complete sentence in Klingon, just as "noun dash noun" (the first
noun corresponds to the second noun).
I have a difficult time interpreting Voragh's examples as usages of a
timestamp. Perhaps you can elaborate using one of them?
--
De'vID
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