Re: Positioning for emphasis

In a message dated 9/14/2007 11:51:48 AM Central Daylight Time,
philip.newton@GMAIL.COM writes:


> Generally, Klingon seems to like resumptive pronouns or even repeated
> nouns, at least in situations such as {yaS legh puq 'ej ghaH qIp ghaH}
> "the child sees and hits the officer" (literally, "the child sees the
> officer and it hits him"), {jagh luHoHmeH jagh lunejtaH} "They are
> searching for the enemy in order to kill him/her" (literally, "...in
> order to kill the enemy").
>
> The pronoun can be left out, but Klingon seems to like leaving in the
> noun or replacing it by a pronoun more than, say, English. At least,
> that's the impression I got from TKD.
>
Neither of these is a resumptive pronoun as I understand the term.  A
resumptive pronoun is used only in relative clauses to explicitly fill the role that
in English is left as a gap.  Klingon has no resumptive pronouns in this
sense.

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