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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/7/2021 6:14 AM,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:luis.chaparro@web.de">luis.chaparro@web.de</a> wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">SuStel:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">jIQam; jIba' 'e' qa'
I stand instead of sitting.
This is literally I stand; it replaces that I sit. You cannot say jIQam; jIba' qa', because the object of qa' replace cannot directly be a sentence. You need the pronoun to stand in for it.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Maybe I'm missing something here, but what is actually the subject of <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>qa'* in this sentence? I would say that is the first sentence (<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>jIQam<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>), something like *That I stand replaces that I sit<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>. But since sentences as subjects aren't possible in Klingon, I cannot understand this structure properly.</pre>
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<p>This is one of those cases of Okrand giving us what appears to be
a fixed expression that doesn't follow the rules. I'm not sure it
makes sense to ask what the subject of <b>qa'</b> is here.<br>
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SuStel
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