[tlhIngan Hol] Skybox 1 {juHqo' Qo'noSvo' loghDaq}
Steven Boozer
sboozer at uchicago.edu
Thu Apr 4 07:04:23 PDT 2019
A similar example with another Type 5 suffix is:
tlhIngan juHqo'Daq tlhIng yoSDaq 'oH toQDuj chenmoHlu'meH Daq wa'DIch'e'
1st Construction Site: The Kling District, Klingon Home World. (KBoP)
Note it’s not the same thing as it’s not apposition but specificity or precision – is there a better grammatical/linguistic term? -- like a mailing address: Apartment 4B, 1234 Blackstone Street, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. (In some countries the order of elements on an envelope is reversed.)
Another example of repeating the suffix (also not apposition) is:
poSDaq nIHDaq je QamtaHvIS SuvwI'pu', chaH jojDaq yItnIS lopwI'
The initiate must pass through a gauntlet of warriors. (S9)
(“while warriors stand on the left [side] and on the right [side], the
celebrant must walk [in the area] between them”)
Yet another example is:
tIngvo' 'evDaq chanDaq
all around, all over (the place) (st.k 11/21/1999)
(“from area-southwestward to area-northwestward to area eastward)
Again this is not apposition, but sequence: from A to B to C.
Can anyone think of other examples where the same suffix appears on both elements of an appositional phrase?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
From: 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.
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