[Tlhingan-hol] KLBC: multiple locatives

[lojmIt tI'wI' nuv]

Your first example is fine, though ambiguous. Since {pa'} is also the word "there", if I didn't have context to suggest otherwise, I'd expect you to point to one place, then another and translate it as "A spirit is moving from there to there."

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lojmIt tI'wI' nuv

> On Nov 19, 2015, at 6:26 PM, fata irae <fatairae at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> When there is motion from one place to another, is it appropriate/acceptable to specify both places?  And more specifically, is it acceptable to specify multiple objects/non-objects?
> 
> pa'vo' pa'Daq vIHtaH qa'
> The spirit keeps moving from room to room.
> 
> Or is this an example of shoe-horning a english construct to tlhIngan?  Would it be more appropriate (following simplicity), to say:
> 
> pa'vo' vIHtaH qa', 'ej pa'Daq vIHtaH qa'
> The spirit keeps moving from the room, and keeps going to the room.
> 
> Or perhaps more eloquently,
> 'ej pa'Daq cheghtaH.
> and keeps returning to the room.
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