[tlhIngan Hol] {'e'} after a {-mo'} clause

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Tue Dec 20 08:50:37 PST 2016


Yes, and the analysis is the same.

On 12/20/2016 11:48 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
> maj. and if I wrote:
>
> {tugh Dujmaj Qaw'lu'. vIghro'meymo' 'e' vISov} for "soon our ship will
> be destroyed; because of the cats I know it". would that be correct as
> well ?
>
> qunnoH jan puqloD
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 6:39 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
>> On 12/20/2016 11:30 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
>>
>> assume I want to say:
>>
>> "soon our ship will be destroyed; because of you I know it".
>>
>> so I write: {tugh Dujmaj Qaw'lu'. SoHmo' 'e' vISov}. Is this correct ?
>> or the {'e'} instead of referring to the {tugh Dujmaj Qaw'lu'}, will
>> be referring to the {SoHmo'} ?
>>
>>
>> SoHmo' can mean two different things: because of you, or because you are.
>> But SoHmo' is not a sentence all by itself, and there are no nouns for a
>> copula, so the 'e' can't be referring to it. Therefore the 'e' must be
>> referring to tugh Dujmaj Qaw'lu' and SoHmo' is a cause-phrase attached to
>> the front of the sentence 'e' vISov.


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