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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/21/2020 11:45 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:77b8d34b-2aa4-0706-592d-96227e3521b7@gmx.de">Am
21.01.2020 um 17:28 schrieb nIqolay Q:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">I'm not sure it's
quite so clearly defined as that. Copula pronouns can
<br>
take verbal suffixes, after all. And we know from the latest
qepHom
<br>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.qephom.de/book/qepHom2019_p_21.jpg"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.qephom.de/book/qepHom2019_p_21.jpg</a>)
that not all Klingons
<br>
analyze words into distinct parts of speech the same way.
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<br>
Be careful not to over-interpret this too much. It was only said
that
<br>
verbs and nouns can be the same word, based on TKD; Don't
interpret it
<br>
too much that words can mean anything now. Proniuns were NEVER
treated
<br>
as a verb, it's only the English translation that uses a verb (to
be).
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<p>Agreed. The text of the qepHom page goes out its way to avoid
declaring whether identical nouns and verbs are, in fact, the same
word, or whether they're homophonous, but different, words. The
TKD Addendum describes "nouns and verbs being identical in form."</p>
<p>But nIqolay's point is not without merit: Klingon parts of speech
may not be utterly rigid. Of course, there are formally only the
three parts of speech: <b>DIp, wot, chuv,</b> and a lot of <b>chuvmey</b>
act like, stand in for, or have properties of <b>DIpmey</b> or <b>wotmey</b>
at times. But there are clearly limits. You could not, for
instance, use a pronoun as an adverbial or an adverbial as a
pronoun, despite the fact that they're both <b>chuvmey.</b> Since
we lack vocabulary for the subtypes of <b>chuvmey, </b>one might
think that Klingon linguists don't care to develop too detailed of
a formal description of the structure of their language.<br>
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