[tlhIngan Hol] verb prefix when the object noun is topicalized by {-'e'} and precedes the adverb

Will Martin willmartin2 at mac.com
Wed Jan 19 06:49:04 PST 2022


I’ve always interpreted the wording of this section to be carefully intentional. I’ll add emphasis:

“The adverbial MAY actually follow the object noun…"

That doesn’t suggest that it has to.

My personal interpretation of this is that there could be a subtle layering of emphasis:

DaH HaqwI’ yISam! Find the surgeon now! (Simple command)

DaH HaqwI’’e’ yISam! Find the SURGEON now! (Emphasis on what you need to find)

HaqwI’’e’ DaH yISam! THE SURGEON! FIND THE SURGEON NOW! (I’m talking to you about a surgeon. It’s all about the surgeon. Think surgeon. Not plumber. Not gunner. Surgeon. Surgeon, surgeon, surgeon. Find the friggin’ surgeon NOW.

The next layer of emphasis would be to clip it:

HaqwI’’e’ Sam! (Typically, a line delivered with a disruptor pointed between your eyes.)

pItlh

charghwI’ ‘utlh
(ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)




> On Jan 19, 2022, at 8:48 AM, mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> charghwI':
>> But that’s only one interpretation. It’s actually more confusing than that because
>> you are merely stating that the Romulans are the topic, then you are telling some
>> unspecified subject to attack some unspecified object. See the problem here?
> 
> Yes, I think I do.
> 
> Initially I thought that perhaps the correct option would be
> {romuluSnganpu''e' DaH yIHIv}, because I interpreted it as "The
> Romulans! Attack now!".
> 
> But then I noticed that in tkd it says "The adverbial may actually
> follow the object noun (but still precede the verb) when the object
> noun is topicalized by means of the noun suffix {-'e'}".
> 
> So I started to wonder, "since tkd says 'object noun' then we
> obviously need to have a prefix on the verb which indicates the
> existence of that object". Thus the confusion started.
> 
> Anyway, if I understand correctly, the correct option is
> {romuluSnganpu''e' DaH tIHIv}. So I guess I'll just have to force
> myself to grow accustomed to seeing the object separated from its'
> verb by an adverb.
> 
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