On 1/25/2022 10:02 AM, Will Martin wrote:
I concede your point, though I still think it’s poor form, given that Okrand gave us a category of words as conjunctions and he gave us a category of words as adverbials and never suggested that any word could be both. He apparently considers {vaj} to be both, simultaneously, and he is humanity’s primary Klingon grammarian.
He's not using it as a conjunction. He's just not being too concerned about distinguishing one sentence from another. This is a common theme in Klingon: independent clauses pushed together when their meanings are tightly bound together. This really shouldn't surprise us: every type of sentence-as-object exhibits this same behavior. And let's not forget that Klingon grammarians consider *'ej* and *vaj* to be ultimately of the same part of speech, so it's not surprising if the difference between their syntactic functions is a little vague. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name