tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 09 16:20:09 1997
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RE: Krankor's article
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Krankor's article
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 97 00:19:24 UT
January 09, 1997 6:48 PM EST, jIjatlh:
> I was really enjoying Krankor's article until I reached this point. I have
> the same problem with it that you did. We have never seen nouns with Type 5
> suffixes modifying other nouns. Indeed, despite Krankor's assertion that
his
> {-vo'} trick is completely grammatical, it is not. TKD p. 31 says, "When
the
> noun-noun construction is used, only the second noun can take syntactic
> suffixes (Type 5)." This would appear to invalidate this trick.
Actually, I've just realized that this could be wrong. Krankor's trick is not
a possessive construction, which may be only what "noun-noun" is referring to.
Still, I don't like the "trick."
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