[Tlhingan-hol] 'e'mo'

[Robyn Stewart]

I was about to say that I've heard it in speech, but wouldn't condone it in writing. It's like appended locatives and -meH clauses, something that comes out when you're talking and people understand, but you'd never write down. 

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On 2012-05-20, at 7:24, "De'vID jonpIn" <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:

> De'vID:
>>> This is probably a simple point of grammar that I've forgotten but can
>>> the pronoun {'e'} take suffices?
> 
> ghunchu'wI':
>> We've never seen {'e'} with a suffix.
> 
> But it's a pronoun and we've seen other pronouns with suffixes.
> However, {'e'} and {net} seem to be different than other pronouns.
> 
> De'vID:
>>> For example, is {'e'mo'} "because of that [i.e., the previous sentence]" legal?
> 
> ghunchu'wI':
>> Why not just put the suffix on the verb and not use {'e'} at all?
> 
> If I was writing and could revise my sentence, that's what I would do.
> This came up because I wanted to say something, and I'd already said
> the first sentence, paused, and then I realised I wanted to add {-mo'}
> to the first verb and continue with a second part.  I wondered if I
> could've salvaged the situation by continuing {'e'mo'...}.
> 
> Also, I think {'e'} could refer to another person's just-spoken
> sentence in a conversation (we have from ST:VI {'e' neHbe' vavwI'}).
> So conceivably someone could want to add a suffix to {'e'} because the
> pronoun is referring to something someone else said, e.g.,
> 
> A: {mutIchpu'}
> B: {'e'mo' DaHoH'a'?}
> 
> -- 
> De'vID
> 
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