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Re: noun suffixes on adj?



At 02:13 PM 10/23/98 -0700, charghwI' wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:24:05 -0700 (PDT) Steven Boozer 
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> K'ryntes wrote:
>> 
>> : TKD p. 50 has a type 5 noun suffix on a verb.
[...]
>> : And why is Daq on tIn in the first place?  You aren't in "big" you're in
>> : "city".
>
>Consider this:
>

[charghwI' qarbogh qechmey val pe'lu']

I often think that to the Klingon mind, a noun plus adjective becomes
a sort of ad-hoc compound, and like a true N+A compound (such as /bIQtIq/),
any Type 5 suffixes would come at the end of the whole expression.

-- ter'eS




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