[tlhIngan Hol] Skybox 1 {juHqo' Qo'noSvo' loghDaq}

[SuStel]

On 4/4/2019 9:08 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
> Skybox 1 has (among other sentences) the following phrase:
>
> {juHqo' Qo'noSvo' loghDaq lengtaHvIS tlhInganpu'} with the translation
> "..expansion of the klingon people from their homeworld of kronos into
> space.."
>
> Shouldn't the "from their homeworld of kronos" be given as {Qo'noS
> juHqo'vo'} instead of {juHqo' Qo'noSvo'} ?

Not really. *juHqo' Qo'noSvo'* is just an example of apposition. /From 
Kronos, the homeworld./

What's interesting about this to me is that a *-vo'* isn't added to both 
words. If I were writing this sentence I would have said *juHqo'vo' 
Qo'noSvo'**.* You can imagine a comma between the two words. Lacking a 
*-vo'* on *juHqo',* and the way type 5 suffixes migrate to the ends of 
verbs, suggest to me that type 5 noun suffixes act more like clitics 
than simple noun inflections.

You're going to ask me what a clitic 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitic> is. Basically, it's a morpheme 
that is more than an affix, kind of like its own word, but it can't 
exist on its own. A prominent example is possession in English: we add 
/-'s/ to words to indicate possession. It's not a simple inflection, 
because the /-'s/ can encompass entire phrases: /We went to the Queen of 
England's castle./ The Queen is the possessor of the castle, but the 
phrase /of England/ gets included in the phrase that is the possessor. 
/The Queen's castle; the Queen of England's castle./

-- 
SuStel
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