[tlhIngan Hol] can the object of the {-meH} be the subject of what follows it ?
Will Martin
willmartin2 at mac.com
Wed Oct 16 06:24:18 PDT 2019
The question isn’t “whose purpose”. The purpose of the action of screaming. The {-meH} clause is modifying the verb {jach}. It explains the purpose of the action, not of the actor.
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charghwI’
> On Oct 16, 2019, at 8:58 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> SuStel:
>> tlhIngan leghmeH romuluSngan jach tlhIngan means
>> In order that the Romulan sees the Klingon, the Klingon shouts.
>
> There is still something which confuses me..
>
> We have the sentence:
>
> {tlhIngan leghmeH romuluSngan jach tlhIngan}
>
> The first part of the sentence, the {tlhIngan leghmeH romuluSngan},
> describes a purpose; the purpose that the "romulan sees the klingon".
>
> I can't understand "whose purpose this purpose is". Is this a purpose,
> which the romulan has ? Because if the romulan has this purpose, then
> how is it possible that someone else, i.e. the klingon, is the one
> acting towards that purpose in the second part of the sentence ?
>
> Or is this purpose, just "a purpose in general", case in which it
> *does* make sense for someone other than the romulan, to be acting
> towards that purpose ?
>
> - bara'qa'
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