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

mayqel qunenoS mihkoun at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 08:48:58 PST 2016


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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