On 6/3/2016 11:28 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
I remember reading somewhere (I think in the wiki), that sentence as subject is not allowed.
However, I can't understand how someone can use a sentence as subject in the first place.
Can someone write an example of a sentence as subject, so that I will understand, what someone is supposed to avoid ?
An example, in English, of something that could be considered sentence-as-subject: /The Klingon killing the Ferengi is good. It is good that the Klingon killed the Ferengi./ Here, /it/ stands in for the postcedent /the Klingon killed the Ferengi./ In Klingon, you cannot say **QaQ verengan HoHpu' tlhIngan *or ****verengan HoHpu' tlhIngan **QaQ 'e'.* You must recast. Perhaps *verengan HoHpu'mo' tlhIngan QaQ ghu'*/**because the Klingon killed the Ferengi the situation is good/ or *QaQ tlhIngan verengan HoHpu'ghach*/the Klingon's Ferengi-killing is good/ (this latter might be hard to parse). -- SuStel http://trimboli.name