On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 05:03, Hugh Son puqloD <Hugh@qeylis.net> wrote:
On Aug 26, 2019, at 21:53, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
these seem downright weird:
{nuqDaq 'oH ngop'e'?} {'Iv ghaH no'ra''e'?} {cha 'oH'a'?} {negh ghaHlaw'.}
Do we have canonical evidence of pronouns used to stand in for irregular plural nouns?
{nuqDaq 'oH ngop'e'} is given as an example in KGT on p.33 where the grammar of inherently plural nouns is explained. Those sentences are grammatically correct.
Sigh. Once again I ask a question that’s answered in KGT, and amusingly this time I even made up an example that is identical to a canonical example that answers my question.
I clearly need to repeatedly read KGT until I don’t ask questions like that any more. Maybe I’ll sleep with it under my pillow tonight.
For some reason, the examples with {ghaH} strike me as even weirder than the ones with {'oH}. But if we do use {'oH} for {ngop}, I can’t justify using {chaH} for {no'}.
I'm working with Dr. Okrand on a 2nd edition of the paq'batlh and can confirm that the correct pronoun for {negh} is {ghaH}. (Incorrect uses of {chaH} and verb prefixes which incorrectly treated {negh} as grammatically plural will be corrected in the 2nd ed.) -- De'vID