[Tlhingan-hol] Type 5 on first noun

Alan Anderson qunchuy at alcaco.net
Wed Feb 10 19:12:32 PST 2016


On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 2:38 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> Why aren't there any other you-supply-the-missing-sentence constructions?

There are. TKD 7.1. "Commands" says
> When the object noun is critical, and what is to be done
> with that noun is obvious (or should be obvious) to the
> listener, that noun itself may serve as the command.

It's not the same thing as the so-called "cat-in-the-hat" fragment,
but it's been part of the language forever.

-- ghunchu'wI'



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