tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 04 01:27:04 2002
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Re: tlhIngan Hol lujatlhbogh puq'e'
>>Actually, the term 'genitive' has been used on this list to
>>describe the function of the first noun in a noun-noun
>>construction. To slip into the fiction of Klingon for a bit, I
>>suspect that long ago, there was a 'genitive' syntactic marker, and
>>like the other syntactic markers it was a Type 5 suffix. This
>>would explain why nouns occupying that grammatical role can't take
>>Type 5 suffixes - it's a holdover from when those nouns had Type 5
>>suffixes of their own.
>
>jI'omlaHbe': chaq <-'I'> 'oH mojaqvam'e'.
Sangqar,
qatlh <-'I'>?
tulwI',
sts.