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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/13/2019 11:49 AM, Daniel Dadap
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On May 13, 2019, at 10:25, SuStel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" moz-do-not-send="true"><sustel@trimboli.name></a> wrote:
It has nothing to do with whether it's appeared in a superlative sentence. It's because pronoun sentences already have a correct form, with the topic at the end.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Another thing to consider is how the topic marker is optional in Morskan pronoun sentences, e.g., {nov 'o vIghro' tIQ}. While you can probably topic-mark and front the ancient cat to make something like {vIghro' tIQ'e' nov 'o}, you almost certainly cannot front the ancient cat without also topicalizing it, e.g., *{vIghro tIQ nov 'o}, which would be just as ungrammatical in Morskan as it is in {ta' Hol}.</pre>
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<p>He's not suggesting starting with the sentence <b>nov 'oH
vIghro' tIQ'e'</b> and converting it to <b>vIghro' tIQ'e' nov
'oH;</b> he's talking about constructing the sentence according
to the rules we know about building sentences. By his suggestion,
a Morskan would say <b>vIghro' tIQ'e' nov 'o.</b><br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">In other words, the {-'e'} in a pronoun-as-copula “to be” sentence is not just a topic marker in Standard Klingon. It’s a necessary part of the pronoun-as-copula formula. So it’s probably not a good idea to treat it like it’s just a topic marker, and it’s very unlikely that {vIghro' tIQ'e' nov 'oH} and {nov 'oH vIghro' tIQ'e'} are equivalent expressions apart from a marked stylistic difference of word order.</pre>
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<p>Except we're explicitly told otherwise in TKD:</p>
<p><b>puqpu' chaH qama'pu''e'</b><i> As for the prisoners, they are
children.<br>
</i><b>pa'DajDaq ghaHtaH la''e'</b><i> As for the commander, he is
in his quarters.</i></p>
<p>The <b>-'e'</b> may be required, but it still indicates a topic.<br>
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