On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 19:30, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
Just noticed this line in *paq'batlh:*
DaH mararchuq mayIntaHvIS wa' Dol bIH qa''e' porgh'e' je
We are now connected, Spirit and body are one, Until our time comes.
What's of interest is the sentence *wa' Dol bIH qa''e' porgh'e' je.* This demonstrates clearly that when you've got a "to be" sentence with a topic as well as a noun, the pronoun agrees with the topic, not the first noun. *wa' Dol* is singular; *qa''e' porgh'e' je* is plural. *bIH* is plural. It's not *wa' Dol 'oH qa''e' porgh'e' je.*
I am experiencing {nIbpoH}, the feeling I have done this before... [Enterprise explodes] On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 at 19:36, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
Another interesting tidbit from paq'batlh:
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First, in the {wa' Dol} line, we have the pronoun agreeing with the subject but not the object. {wa' Dol} is an {'oH}; {qa''e' porgh'e' je} are plural.
Second, we know that a {qa'} is capable of using language, but the combination {qa' porgh je} has gotten the pronoun {bIH}, which indicates no language ability. A {porgh} is undoubtedly an {'oH}, not a {ghaH}, so the conjunction of these two "genders" has led to the less language-capable one controlling the pronoun.
-- De'vID