[tlhIngan Hol] Noun marked with {-'e'} at the beginning of the sentence

Jeffrey Clark jmclark85 at gmail.com
Mon May 13 09:16:02 PDT 2019



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> On May 13, 2019, at 12:11, Daniel Dadap <daniel at dadap.net> wrote:
> 
> But maybe I’ve been thinking about it backwards, and it’s just that Morskan speakers see the mandatory topicalization as redundant for some reason or another. It probably fits better with how the one known non-phonetic and non-lexical difference between Morskan and {ta' Hol} is described.

I think it’s specifically in the pronoun cupola construction they see it as redundant since the pronoun in the place of a verb already signals the intent of the phrase.

—jevreH


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