On 10/7/2021 6:14 AM, luis.chaparro@web.de wrote:
SuStel:
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. Maybe I'm missing something here, but what is actually the subject of*qa'* in this sentence? I would say that is the first sentence (*jIQam*), something like *That I stand replaces that I sit*. But since sentences as subjects aren't possible in Klingon, I cannot understand this structure properly.
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 *qa'* is here. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name