On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 00:55, Jeffrey Clark <jmclark85@gmail.com> wrote:
On May 7, 2019, at 17:08, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
No. *qar'a'* is a special case that's given to us; *qarbe'* has not been given to us. You can say *De' Sov qar'a' HoD** The captain knows the information, right?* and this is impossible to construct with *qarbe''a'.* The two words are not functionally equivalent.
I’ve never seen {qar’a’} occur mid-sentence like that (not that it isn’t possible, I’ve just not encountered it*). All the usages I’ve seen follow more like {De’ Sov HoD, qar’a’}; and in this form they could be functionally equivalent since they follow more standard grammatical rules — unless there’s also some prohibition against referencing a sentence as the subject of another sentence?
*I couldn’t find this in my paper copy of TKD, because it’s in the Addendum — which my digital copy has but I’ve not reviewed in depth (mea culpa, I know).
{De' Sov qar'a' HoD} and {De' Sov HoD qar'a'} are indeed in the TKD Addendum in section 6.4. -- De'vID