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Re: Positioning for emphasis

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Friday, September 14, 2007, 18:43
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. stevo </HTML>