[tlhIngan Hol] A thought on the irrealis construction

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 00:35:17 PDT 2016


On Nov 4, 2016 06:47, "Anthony Appleyard" <a.appleyard at btinternet.com>
wrote:
>
> Some language textbooks call this sort of sentence an "unreal condition".
We need Okrand/Maltz to reveal a one-syllable or two-syllable particle
which means "this is not true, but assume for the moment that it is true"
or similar, that could be put in if-clauses and when-ckauses and suchlike,
and/or into a clause that governs such a clause.

{net jalchugh} Dapar'a'?

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De'vID
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