Why DaH is an adverb ?
Perhaps it will sound strange, but I can't understand why DaH is an adverb. tuch is a noun and pa'logh is noun; nem, ben, leS, waQ etc. are all nouns. I can't understand why DaH is an adverb. Not that I have a problem with it being an adverb, but I just can't understand why it needs to be different. ~ channgan qIj
ghItlhpu' mayqel, jatlhpu':
Perhaps it will sound strange, but I can't understand why DaH is an adverb.
tuch is a noun and pa'logh is noun; nem, ben, leS, waQ etc. are all nouns.
But on the other hand, tugh, not, SIbI' and qen are all adverbs too. I think it's just one of those things where time is handled in a couple of different grammatical ways. It is in English too - many time expressions are adverbs, but many are also noun phrases using the postposition "ago" (yes, English does have at least one postposition). QeS 'utlh
Am 15.10.2018 um 04:02 schrieb Rhona Fenwick:
I think it's just one of those things where time is handled in a couple of different grammatical ways.
I think that it was just in that group because Okrand did not think about the grammatical differences at that time. TKD was never intended to be a linguistic correct analysis. I think Okrand already had made a disctinction within "other terms", but did not think about making even more different kinds of adverbs or "terms used in a adverbial manner" or whatever. Remember that the book was intended to be sold to non-linguists, people who just wanted another book about Star Trek. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/TheKlingonDictionary
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