[tlhIngan Hol] What is a sentence?

MorphemeAddict lytlesw at gmail.com
Sat Jun 10 14:06:43 PDT 2017


Isn't that why {DaH} goes before {'e'}, if that's the clause it's meant to
modify?
reH targh HoH vav DaH 'e' vISov.

lay'tel SIvten

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Lieven <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 10.06.2017 um 18:08 schrieb DloraH:
>
>> On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 21:58 +0200, Lieven wrote:
>>
>>> Am 09.06.2017 um 21:03 schrieb SuStel:
>>>
>>>> Oh sure. I'm not saying that an SAO isn't two sentences. It clearly is.
>>>> I'm saying that it's a sentence composed of sentences. It's both one
>>>> sentence and two.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Since a verb using a sentence as object creates a new sentence, I think
>>> it's very clear that such a SAO-sentence can be the SAO in another
>>> sentence.
>>>
>>> {targh HoH vav DaneH 'e' vIyaj net Sov.}
>>> One knows that I understand you want your father to kill the targ.
>>>
>>> [[[[targh HoH vav] DaneH] 'e' vIyaj] net Sov.]
>>> [[[[the father kills the targ] you want that] I understand that] one
>>> knows it]
>>>
>>>
>> But now add an adverbial to each sentence.
>>
>
> That sounds like a true challenge. Theoretically, it should be nested like
> macros do in software, but that would look very strange:
>
> {reH targh HoH vav}
> "father always kills targ"
>
> DaH {reH targh HoH vav} 'e' vISov
> Now I know that "father always kills targ"
>
> I'm not sure that is based on anything canon.
>
>
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