Am 30.08.2017 um 20:32 schrieb Steven Boozer:
I’m not quite sure I understand what Lieven’s FaceBook critic meant by “some kind of tool”, but here are a few purpose clauses that probably don’t – depending on how you analyze them - involve “purpose nouns”:
Very often, there are two ways to interpet such constructions, for instance
*Dochvetlh DIlmeH Huch 'ar DaneH*
I'm sure this is not {DIlmeH Huch} but a separate phrase {Dochvetlh DIlmeH} + {Huch 'ar DaneH} I'll add some comma to these example to show that most are not -meH-nound-phrases:
*cha'puj vIngevmeH, chaw' HInobneS * *Heghlu'meH, QaQ jajvam* *bIQapqu'meH, tar DaSop 'e' DatIvnIS* *HIvmeH Duj So'lu'* A ship cloaks in order to attack. TKW
But not "The hiding ship (HIvmeH Duj) is cloaked"
*vISeHmeH, Hoch nuHmey Qay! * *motlh ray' luSamlaHmeH, De' Qatlh cha' tlhIngan Duj jIH'a' * *luchovmeH, 'oy'naQmey lo' * *labmeH, 'evnagh Se' lo' tlhIngan QumwI' * *ngoQvam luchavmeH, ghawran maghpu' be'nI'pu'*. *woQ luSuqmeH, jIjpu' chaH romuluSngan'e' je*. *tlhutlhmeH, HIq ngeb qaq law' bIQ qaq puS* *jonlu'meH, wo'maj pop tIn law' Hoch tIn puS*
There are others I could post.
After finishing, I noticed that none of these phrases shows {verb-meH noun} phrases. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka Quvar valer 'utlh Grammarian of the KLI http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher http://www.klingonwiki.net