On 2/17/2021 9:14 AM, Lieven L. Litaer wrote:
It's okay to add the subject as a pronoun for emphasis. From TKD: {jIlujpu' jIH'e'} "I was ME who failed" (not someone else)
So you might say {pa'Daq ghaHtaH ghaH'e'} to say that "it's him who is in the room, (not they)".
No, this doesn't work. *jIlujpu' jIH'e'* is a basic sentence; *pa'Daq ghaHtaH* is a copula. The *ghaHtaH* in the copula is not a verb; it's the subject. And when you have a sentence like *pa'Daq ghaHtaH HoD'e'*/The captain is in the room,/ the *-'e'* there marks topic (what the sentence is about), not focus (making the word exclusive). That is to say, the *HoD'e'* in my sentence doesn't mean /the captain (not someone else);/ it means /as for the captain./ If any Klingons say things like *pa'Daq ghaHtaH ghaH'e',* it is completely unattested and does not follow any rules we have been given. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name