On 1/21/2020 11:28 AM, nIqolay Q wrote:
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:22 AM SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name <mailto:sustel@trimboli.name>> wrote:
Ungrammatical. No, there's no rule against it, but it's obviously not said this way. The *chaH* is NOT the verb /are./ It's the pronoun /they, them./ In Klingon, pronouns are not verbs, even when they are the center of a copula sentence.
I'm not sure it's quite so clearly defined as that.
See my other post. This falls in the area between clearly grammatical and clearly ungrammatical. There certainly is some verbiness to pronouns when they operate in an identity, in that the identity may be continuous or completed or beginning or interrogative or conditional, etc. But pronouns still aren't verbs. They don't take verb prefixes, they don't take objects, they can't be nominalized, and when they're not tying two nouns together they are the subject of the sentence. *chaH* doesn't mean /they are;/ it just means /they, them./ The /are/ comes from translating it into English, which requires a form of the verb /be/ in this kind of sentence. In the Klingon, you just shove a pronoun next to a noun to make them equivalent. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name