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Re: Noun-noun with {'e'}

• From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Noun-noun with {'e'}
• Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 21:36:20 -0500

mujang ~mark
>In {yaS Duj chIl HoD}, {yaS} is not the object.  The object is the
>thing that the captain lost.  Did the captain lose the officer?  i should
>think not!  He lost a ship.  A *ship*, mind you.  It's the {Duj} that is
>the object.  True, that ship is *modified* by the presence of {yaS}; if
you
>will, yaS would be in genitive case if Klingon marked it (personally, I'd
>rather consider it would be in genitive+accusative, if Klingon marked
>both), but it is a modifier on the actual subject, the ship.

Thanks ~mark.  I needed a good strong argument to bolster my knowledge that
it wasn't the object, such that I couldn't put into words myself.
Qapla'
qoror

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