Am 18.08.2017 um 14:43 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
As soon as he finishes his speech/passage, another person wants to ask him "how do you know it (this fact) ?
Would it be correct for him to say {chay' DaSov ?} And by the use of the prefix {Da-} the {Sov} having as an elided object the entire preceding speech/passage ?
Good question. I have three answers to this, with grades of correctness. a) I would accept {chay' DaSov} with no objection, but I have no evidence this is correct. b) Taken the book, there is a way to refer to a previous sentence, maybe {chay' 'e' DaSov}, but this maybe wrong. c) To be on a very clean grammatical track, I would suggest to say what you even used in your question: {chay' ngoDvetlh DaSov?} "How do you know that fact?" -- Lieven L. Litaer aka Quvar valer 'utlh Grammarian of the KLI http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher http://www.klingonwiki.net