On 7/9/2019 11:27 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
SuStel:
chay' is a question word that acts as an adverbial.
Interesting. I hadn't thought of that. I thought {chay'} was only a question word.
Are there any other question words, which act as adverbials ?
When I say "acts as an adverbial," I don't mean that TKD tells us to treat those words as adverbials; I mean the words' meanings are adverbial in nature. *chay'* /how?/ is asking the manner in which something is done. That's adverbial. *qatlh*/why?/ is asking the reason something is done; that's adverbial. *ghorgh*/when?/ is asking the time something is done; that's adverbial — although in Klingon maybe it's considered a time element. Federation linguists classified *chay', ghorgh, qatlh, nuq, nuqDaq, 'Iv,* and *'ar* as question words; Klingon linguists classify them with *chuvmey,* along with all the adverbials, conjunctions, exclamations, and so on. The classification of some words into question words shouldn't make you think they are completely separate from other classes of words, or that they all work the same way. Barring Okrandian intervention, the best we can do is observe the canon and formulate the rules they seem to follow. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name