tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 03 09:17:21 1998
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Re: Locatives and {-bogh} (was Re: KLBC Poetry)
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Locatives and {-bogh} (was Re: KLBC Poetry)
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 11:17:09 CST
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 02 Feb 1998 14:59:28 -0800
Despite the example of {SepmeyDaq luSovbe'lu'bogh}, I'd like to
comment on charghwI's sentence below...
> If we use the Type 5 "postposition" idea and combine it with
> Krankor's use of {-'e'} to disambiguate, we can have these
> different meanings more clearly stated:
>
> qachDaq Sopbogh HoD puq vIlegh.
>
> I saw the captain's child who ate in the restaurant.
>
Rather: "I saw the child of the captain who ate in the restaurant.", yes?
Could it be disambiguated by
?{qachDaq Sopbogh HoD'e' puq vIlegh}
(it's the captain who ate in the restaurant)
{qachDaq Sopbogh HoD puq'e' vIlegh}
(it's the child who ate in the restaurant
or is the first one forbidden, because {-'e'}, being a type
5 noun suffix (or whatever), cannot appear "inside" a noun-
noun construction and the relative clause as a whole functions
as the N1 in N1-N2?
Marc Ruehlaender
aka HomDoq
[email protected]