tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 16 00:33:43 1996
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Genitive and apposition
- From: "A.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Genitive and apposition
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:33:20 GMT
- Organization: Materials Science Centre
- Priority: normal
Someone wrote:-
> P.S. This confusion between "all" and "everyone's" is one of the reasons
> I preferred the {X Hoch} syntax, but c'est la vie.
{X Hoch} could also mean "X's everything" = "everything that X owns". Here is
that <"X's Y" versus "X which = Y"> nuisance ambiguity turning up yet again.
Time is to add to the list of queries for Okrand, a suggestion for him to
define a form *{X 'u' Y} or *{X Y'u'} or the like, where 'u' would be an
optional disambiguator to mean {X which = Y}.
And <please> ask him to allow {i} instead of {I} !! It would much help
legibility.