[96109] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Dante qul'a'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Fri Apr 26 07:49:33 2013
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:49:07 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <CA+7zAmPjQNhBD9d9ga4hyanUespKh-kYPe_668+raG2e7fwdJg@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On 4/26/2013 7:17 AM, De'vID wrote:
>>> 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)?
Sorry, too early in the morning; brain wasn't working.
--
SuStel
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