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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/17/2021 9:14 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:7c85120c-e6e5-df8d-98f8-c79987cac216@gmx.de">It's okay
to add the subject as a pronoun for emphasis. From TKD:
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{jIlujpu' jIH'e'} "I was ME who failed" (not someone else)
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So you might say {pa'Daq ghaHtaH ghaH'e'} to say that "it's him
who is
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in the room, (not they)".
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<p>No, this doesn't work. <b>jIlujpu' jIH'e'</b> is a basic
sentence; <b>pa'Daq ghaHtaH</b> is a copula. The <b>ghaHtaH</b>
in the copula is not a verb; it's the subject. And when you have a
sentence like <b>pa'Daq ghaHtaH HoD'e'</b><i> The captain is in
the room,</i> the <b>-'e'</b> there marks topic (what the
sentence is about), not focus (making the word exclusive). That is
to say, the <b>HoD'e'</b> in my sentence doesn't mean <i>the
captain (not someone else);</i> it means <i>as for the captain.</i></p>
<p>If any Klingons say things like <b>pa'Daq ghaHtaH ghaH'e',</b>
it is completely unattested and does not follow any rules we have
been given.<br>
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