Am 13.07.2016 um 16:10 schrieb De'vID:> I was under the impression that what was considered incorrect was
*misinterpreting* the question word in a QAO sentence as a relative pronoun.
Yeeeeeesss - that what I meant :-)
For example, {nuq vIghaj 'e' DaSov} appears to me to be a perfectly good Klingon question meaning "what do you know I have?" Isn't the QAO error just in misinterpreting this sentence to mean "you know what I have" (using {nuq} "what" as a relative pronoun)?
Indeed.
What's the rationale for saying that QAO *constructions* are illegal, rather than just that they shouldn't be *misinterpreted* as statements with relative pronouns?
A subtle difference that should be written down somewhere :-) -- Lieven L. Litaer aka Quvar valer 'utlh Grammarian of the KLI http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher http://www.klingonwiki.net