<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On May 7, 2019, at 17:08, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite">
<p>No. <b>qar'a'</b> is a special case that's given to us; <b>qarbe'</b>
has not been given to us. You can say <b>De' Sov qar'a' HoD</b><i>
The captain knows the information, right?</i> and this is
impossible to construct with <b>qarbe''a'.</b> The two words are
not functionally equivalent.</p></blockquote><br><div>I’ve never seen {qar’a’} occur mid-sentence like that (not that it isn’t possible, I’ve just not encountered it*). All the usages I’ve seen follow more like {De’ Sov HoD, qar’a’}; and in this form they could be functionally equivalent since they follow more standard grammatical rules — unless there’s also some prohibition against referencing a sentence as the subject of another sentence?</div><div><br></div><div>*I couldn’t find this in my paper copy of TKD, because it’s in the Addendum — which my digital copy has but I’ve not reviewed in depth (mea culpa, I know).</div><div><br></div><div>—jevreH</div></body></html>