tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 08 12:30:17 1996
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partitives...
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: partitives...
- Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:30:01 -0400 (EDT)
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Hey, just noticed something while skimming mail that I haven't read through
properly yet:
What about "mangghom" for "army"? That's a partitive with the quantifier
AFTER the noun, not before as Glen claims. I think it's pretty clearly a
partitive. Now, it's a compound noun, not a noun-noun construction; maybe
it works differently. But from what I've seen, compound nouns are
generally fairly close in meaning to their non-compounded forms (indeed, I
remember early on Glen insisting that ALL noun-noun constructions were
compounds, correcting my "bIQ'a' Ha'DIbaH" to "bIQ'a'Ha'DIbaH", before he
re-read the section and straightened things out in his mind). Certainly I
wouldn't expect there to be inversion of the word-order. You can say
that it's an exception... but then we're back to square one, since we can
also say that numbers are exceptional, being chuvmey.
~mark
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