tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Feb 15 10:26:10 1997
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RE: Krankor's article
[jIjangtaHvIS paSqu'mo' jItlhIj]
Krankor proposes {mulegh SuvwI'pu'vo' cha'} "two of the warriors see me."
SuStel writes:
>I was really enjoying Krankor's article until I reached this point. I have
>the same problem with it that you did.
I don't much like it either, and I certainly won't use it before I see it
in something official from Okrand.
>We have never seen nouns with Type 5 suffixes modifying other nouns.
Actually, we *have* seen a possible example of it. One of the audiotapes
gives us {Qo'noSDaq vay' DaSov'a'?} "Do you know anyone on Kronos?" It's
a little more logical to interpret "on Kronos" as modifying "anyone" here
instead of "know", in my opinion. The location of the "knowing" action
isn't what's being discussed, is it?
>Indeed, despite Krankor's assertion that his
>{-vo'} trick is completely grammatical, it is not. TKD p. 31 says, "When the
>noun-noun construction is used, only the second noun can take syntactic
>suffixes (Type 5)." This would appear to invalidate this trick.
If this "trick" isn't a noun-noun construction but is instead something
else, the rule on p.31 does not invalidate it. It in fact gives a very
definite way of distinguishing between a "true" noun-noun construction
and...whatever the proposed {-vo'} trick is.
-- ghunchu'wI'