[Tlhingan-hol] {ra'} as verb of saying

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I might use 2 as reported speech if I weren’t too picky about what people thought of my grammar. Otherwise I’d hold it to be ungrammatical.  I would use many of the same arguments levelled against QAO. A SAO in general works because the sentence is a statement. Once it becomes a command, I don’t like it there.

 

qara’! yIjegh!

 

From: Brent Kesler [mailto:brent.of.all.people at gmail.com] 
Sent: February 5, 2016 14:20
To: tlhIngan-Hol at kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] {ra'} as verb of saying

 

Interesting. I was just pondering a similar question. What do people thinking about using imperative prefixes in {'e'} clauses?

 

For example, "I order you to surrender!"

1. bIjegh 'e' vIra'!

2. ? yIjegh 'e' vIra'!

 

I think 1 is acceptable and standard. What do people think about 2? Ungrammatical? Grammatical but marked?

 

bI'reng

 

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:38 AM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:

paq'batlh page 125:

   qamchIy HurDaq
      SuvwI’pu’Daj ra’ qeylIS
      SaqSub yIjaH

   Outside Qam-Chee,
      Kahless tells his warriors
      To go to the Saq'sub.

Here we see {ra'} being used as a verb of saying, as well as having the persons spoken to as its object.

-- 
SuStel
http://trimboli.name


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