18 Feb
2019
18 Feb
'19
9:58 a.m.
On 2/18/2019 9:52 AM, Lieven L. Litaer wrote:
Sticking closely to the rules: - The purpose clause always precedes the noun or verb whose purpose it is describing. - qatlh "occurs at the beginning of the sentence."
Except we know that sometimes when Okrand says /sentence/ he means the verbal clause under consideration. You would not, for instance, translate /I ask why I was chosen/ as *qatlh jIjatlh vIwIvlu'pu'?* A sentence-as-object is still a sentence, but you'd put the *qatlh* with the piece it belongs with: *jIjatlh qatlh vIwIvlu'pu'; qatlh vIwIvlu'pu' jIjatlh.* It's a very murky area of Klingon grammar. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name