Meanwhile, I’m trying to remember where Okrand made sentences that were consistently in the form:

{X-Daq <noun> <pronoun>-taH}

He hasn't. Locative "to be" sentences are of the form:

X-Daq <pronoun> <topic>'e'
or
X-Daq <pronoun>-taH <topic>'e'

It seemed important to put {-taH} on the pronoun. So, why isn’t it {nIHDaq ‘oHtaH puchpa’’e’.}?

Okrand recently commented on this. He said it's not required, but there is a tendency to put -taH on pronouns when the object is considered only temporarily in the given location.

So nIHDaq 'oH puchpa''e' because the bathroom doesn't change its location, but pa'DajDaq ghaHtaH HoD'e' because the captain tends to move to other places besides his or her quarters.

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