On 11/9/2020 12:20 PM, Will Martin wrote:
So, in English, we would instead tend to say, “I am the person who said that Klingon is verb-centric,” using the word “who” as a relative pronoun, instead of as a question word, though in other contexts, this is a question word.
In English, the part of speech of the word /who/ is /pronoun./ You might use it relatively in clauses to stand in for a stated or implied antecedent /(I know who said that)/, or you might use it to stand in for an answer /(Who said that?)/, but it always works as a pronoun.
In Klingon, we might say {tlhIngan Hol jatlhlu’DI’, wot potlh law’ Hoch potlh puS. jatlhboghpu’ nuv wa'DIch jIH.} That would use the Relative Clause to explain that the first person who said it was me.
Because Klingon has a pair of pronouns that specifically stand in only for antecedent sentences, we can be pretty sure that the question words *nuq* and *'Iv,* which stand in for answers (and hence are also pronouns) can't stand in for antecedents. (And Okrand has said they can't.) Thus, they cannot create relative clauses. I think *nuqDaq* can also be considered a pronoun. *tlhIngan Hol lughatlh wot 'e' vIjatlh jIH'e'*/It was I who said that verbs dominate the Klingon language./ -- SuStel http://trimboli.name