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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/13/2019 11:07 AM, Steven Boozer
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">From: mayqel qunen'oS
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">We know, that we can place a noun marked with {-'e'} at the beginning of the
sentence, the meaning then goes "as for (noun).." and the sentence continues.
The classic example is:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">{qIbDaq SuvwI''e' SoH Dun law' Hoch Dun puS} you would be the greatest warrior in the galaxy
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">No, what we know is that you can introduce a law'/puS formula with a noun phrase marked with {-'e'}. AFAIK it's the only one I know of so marked. Other such introductory phrases or clauses [...] are marked with {-meH} [...] or {-mo'} [...] or {-Daq} [...] or {-lu'DI'} [...] or {-lu'chugh)
Such formulaic comparisons are not normal, simple sentences. </pre>
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<p>But adding these elements is a normal, productive application of
the rules given in TKD, and this is supported by the wide variety
of syntactic noun phrases and dependent clauses applied to it. I
see no reason to suspect that <b>law'/puS</b> sentences limit the
kinds of these phrases.</p>
<p>And it's fairly clear from TKD that another normal application of
the rules is to add noun phrases to the fronts of sentences when
their syntactic roles are known, whether by suffix or by their
identification as time expressions.</p>
<p>But pronoun-sentences already have a correct form with a topic,
so I don't see the point of avoiding that correct form. It just
makes you sound like you're talking backward or in pieces.<br>
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