On 2/18/2021 8:22 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
lieven:
Why?
Because of the Ca'Non {lupDujHomDaq jIchegh} "I return on the shuttle".
The {DaH machegh} feels like the {lupDujHomDaq jIchegh} without the {lupDujHomDaq} part.
I understand as "now we return on.." and that's it.
*chegh* doesn't mean /return on./ *chegh* imparts a locative sense to its object. The object of *chegh* is the destination to which you are returning. Any other locative in the sentence refers to where the *chegh* is happening, not the destination. So if Chang's party were returning by shuttlecraft, he could say things like *DaH lupDujHomDaq may'Duj wIchegh*/We are returning to the battlecruiser on the shuttlecraft now./ *DaH lupDujHomDaq machegh*/We are returning on the shuttlecraft now./ *DaH may'Duj wIchegh*/We are returning to the battlecruiser now./ Or, in fact, he could say *DaH machegh*/We are returning now./ -- SuStel http://trimboli.name