Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 10:05:59 +0100 From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Introducing oneself in Klingon: Beginner's question
and "Hello, my name is Kate Stewart" would be *Kate Stewart pongwIj*. Am I>> correct?
This would very probably be understood, and might even be accepted as correct "clipped Klingon", but the non-clipped, grammatically uncontroversial version would be: {Kate Stewart 'oH pongwIj'e'}.
I'm not aware of any examples of the pronoun and {-'e'} being dropped in a copula construction in clipped Klingon, except when the subject is a question word. ({Dochvam nuq} from Conversational Klingon looks like it is the clipped form of {Dochvam 'oH nuq'e'}, even though the grammar isn't explained explicitly.)
So let me get this straight . . . sentences with a would-be copula require a pronoun and -'e' in the subject . . . so *Jim Miller jIH* doesn't need an -'e' because *jIH* already is a pronoun, whereas *Kate Stewart 'oH pongwIj'e'* needs a subject pronoun *'oH* and an -'e' because "Kate Stewart", the subject, is a noun and not a pronoun?