<div dir="auto">voragh:<div dir="auto">> <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15.6933px">The only prescriptions WRT {’ar}</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15.6933px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">What is WRT ?</span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15.6933px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">qunnoq</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 Aug 2017 4:16 pm, "Steven Boozer" <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Every example I know of has {‘ar} following a singular noun, but I don’t see why not – as long as it’s clear which noun you’re discussing at the moment – at
least informally. In conversation question words are often used by themselves in sentence fragments. (E.g. “Some
</span>officers were shot for defying orders.<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">” “Really!? Where? How many?”) Formal Klingon may require that the noun be stated every time.
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The only prescriptions WRT {’ar} “</span><i><span style="font-family:Courier">how many</span></i><span style="font-family:Courier">?
<i>how much</i>?” are 1. that it follows (i.e. not precedes) the noun to which it refers, and 2. that it can never follow a noun with a plural suffix (see TKD p.70).<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">--Voragh<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">On Behalf Of
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can the {'ar} be used on its own, or is it absolutely necessary to always follow a noun ?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And because it is almost certain, that someone will say "if it doesn't follow a noun, then how will the reader know how many of what/who you inquire about ?".<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Then I will reply saying, that it is possible for the context of the text to specify what it is what we are inquiring about, without repeating it again.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If for instance, the text speaks of a number of officers defying orders, then can we say:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">{HeQQo' 'ar ?}<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">How many refused to comply ?<u></u><u></u></p>
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