[Tlhingan-hol] Ten Commandments in Klingon

[Alan Anderson]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 5:13 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> ...strictly speaking the head noun is part of the clause. The clause
> simply obeys normal Klingon sentence order.

I would like to say the same thing, and so does lojmIt tI'wI' nuv, but
TKD 6.2.3 actually describes a relative clause as being separate from
its head noun. In this case, I think TKD's analysis complicates the
situation, and teaching that the head noun is included makes for a
more easily understood grammar. However, until we get another
comprehensive basic introduction to Klingon I'm going to have to add a
disclaimer anytime I tell someone to consider the relative clause a
complete sentence containing the head noun.

"Think of the relative clause as including the head noun, and follow
the O-V-S word order. TKD makes a distinction between the relative
clause and its head noun, but the prescribed word order matches what
you'd get if you treated the noun as part the clause."

-- ghunchu'wI'