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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/4/2020 8:47 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<div dir="auto">SuStel:</div>
<div dir="auto">> qama''e' qIppu'bogh neH</div>
<div dir="auto">> the prisoner(s) whom he/she/it(/they) </div>
<div dir="auto">> merely hit</div>
<div dir="auto">> only the prisoner(s) whom </div>
<div dir="auto">> he/she/it(/they) hit </div>
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<div dir="auto">Couldn't this mean too "the prisoner who has
been hit by only he/she/they/it" ? i.e. can't the {neH} be
interpreted as acting on the elided subject ?</div>
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<p>No. You have to have a word there to put <b>neH</b> after it.<br>
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<div dir="auto">SuStel:</div>
<div dir="auto">> qama'e' qIppu'bogh neH ghaH</div>
<div dir="auto">> only the prisoner whom he/she hit</div>
<div dir="auto">> the prisoner whom he/she merely hit </div>
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<div dir="auto">If instead of the {ghaH} we had as a subject not
a pronoun, but a noun, would this change anything ?</div>
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<div dir="auto">For example would the following be correct ?</div>
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<div dir="auto">Qel'e' qIpta'bogh neH la'</div>
<div dir="auto">only the doctor who has been hit by the
commander</div>
<div dir="auto">the doctor who has been merely hit by the
commander </div>
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<div dir="auto">Perhaps it's a silly question, but something
confuses me in the sentences where the subject is a pronoun.</div>
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<p>When a noun is part of a relative clause, you can't apply <b>neH</b>
to only part of the relative clause. You can apply <b>neH</b> to
just one noun in the relative clause, but not one noun and the
verb if there is another noun in the clause. It's all or nothing.</p>
<p>In <b>Qel'e' qIpta'bogh la',</b> the relative clause is the
whole thing, not just <b>Qel'e' qIpta'bogh.</b> If you've got <b>Qel'e'
qIpta'bogh la',</b> you can't apply a <b>neH</b> only to the <b>Qel'e'
qIpta'bogh</b> part, because <b>la'</b> is part of the clause.</p>
<p>But if you have the relative clause <b>Qel'e' qIpta'bogh,</b>
you CAN apply a <b>neH</b> to it, because that's the entire
relative clause.</p>
<p><b>Qel'e' qIpta'bogh neH la'</b> can only mean <i>the doctor
whom the commander merely hit.</i> The <b>neH</b> cannot apply
to the relative clause <b>Qel'e' qIpta'bogh,</b> because that
relative clause does not appear here; the clause is all of <b>Qel'e'
qIpta'bogh la'.</b> A <b>neH</b> could apply to the <b>Qel'e',</b>
the <b>qIpta'bogh,</b> the <b>la',</b> or the <b>Qel'e'
qIpta'bogh la',</b> but not just PART of the relative clause.</p>
<p>If you want <i>only the doctor whom the commander hit,</i> it's
<b>Qel'e' neH qIpta'bogh la'.</b><br>
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