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Re: Krankor's article



Terrence Donnelly wrote:
> I'm confused by one section of Captain Krankor's article in the latest
> HolQeD.  He writes {mulegh SuvwI'pu'vo' cha'}, meaning 'two of the
> warriors see me'.  I'll accept the odd word order, which I guess is
> justified because {SuvwI'pu'} is supposed to modify only {cha'}.
> (Like if I said {HaDI'baH pe' ghojmeH taj} 'the boy's knife/practice
> knife cuts the meat', where {ghojmeH} is meant to modify only {taj}.)

How do we know that this is possible, though?  What canonical examples
of nouns in oblique cases or purpose clauses modifying nouns are there?

--'Iwvan

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"mIw'e' lo'lu'ta'bogh batlh tlhIHvaD vIlIH [...]
 poH vIghajchugh neH jIH, yab boghajchugh neH tlhIH"
                                  (Lewis Carroll, "_Snark_ wamlu'")
Ivan A Derzhanski  <[email protected], [email protected]>
Dept for Math Lx,  Inst for Maths & CompSci,  Bulg Acad of Sciences
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