tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 16 09:34:47 1996
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Re: Genitive and apposition
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>Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:37:09 -0700
>From: "A.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
>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}.
Um, Welsh and Hebrew both use N-N constructions much as Klingon does (with
the order reversed and a structure-change in the first noun in Hebrew, but
that structure-change is no change for many nouns) and they also use
apposition, and seem to do just fine with no disambiguator less complicated
than the equivalent of "ghaHbogh". This isn't to say that Klingon can't
have one, but I don't see why it's so necessary when other languages can
cope just fine.
~mark
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