tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 08 06:01:19 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'>?
>
>qIDwIj QIj lutvam: http://www.klingonska.org/canon/1996-09.txt
>
>>tulwI',
>>sts.
>
>Sangqar
Sangqar,
i read it and i don't understand what's the link to a type 5 noun suffix.
tulwI',
sts.