[97059] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: naj
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Thu Aug 29 15:57:00 2013
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:56:44 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <CABSTb1fbJJxqpf_Lg+OxxNPPTFQ1rJ22Ui_h3Xfig23KNLjaxg@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org
On 8/29/2013 3:39 PM, Bellerophon, modeler wrote:
> This is something different: {jatlh} only takes a transitive prefix when
> the prefix trick is used? Is this true of any other verbs that can use
> the prefix trick, or just {jatlh}?
Reported speech uses different rules than other sentence-as-object
constructions. This was clarified for us by Okrand back in the days of
the MSN newsgroups, but the basics are in TKD.
The only verbs allowed to report a direct quotation are {jatlh} and
{ja'}. When used this way the sentence expressing the speaking and the
quotation are pushed together end to end, in either order. The quotation
is not the object of the sentence expressing speech; this is not an
application of the prefix trick.
puqbe'wI'vaD jIjatlh <yInajchu'>
<yInajchu'> puqbe'wI'vaD jIjatlh
I said to my daughter, "Sweet dreams."
"Sweet dreams," I said to my daughter.
You cannot put {yInajchu'} between {puqbe'wI'vaD} and {jIjatlh}, because
you can't squeeze a sentence between the verb and its beneficiary. You
simply shove the two separate sentences together.
--
SuStel
http://www.trimboli.name/
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