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Re: Grist for the mill..

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• Subject: Re: Grist for the mill..
• Date: Fri, 26 Aug 94 21:12:15 EDT

>>Again, I'd press for {be'ta'} instead.
>
>But she's not the emperor of the women, but the woman of the emperor. TKD
>describes the N-N construction as translating "N2 of the N1". This means
that
>whatever the last noun is, is the actual thing which the noun preceding it
>categorizes. {jolpa'} is a *room* associated with the transport beam.
>{qIbHeH} is the *edge* associated with the galaxy.

You're confusing the compound noun construction (TKD 3.2.1), which is what
{jolpa'} is, with the N-N construction (TKD 3.4), which is used for
possession by nouns.  Okrand doesn't explicity provide a way to interpret the
compound noun construction.

--Holtej

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