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Re: [N VQ] N

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: [N VQ] N
• Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:30:10 -0500
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ja' Dar'Qang:
>Can I use a noun modified by a verb of quality as the first noun in a
>noun-noun construction?

Sure.  Skybox SP1 demonstrates such a use:
  ...tlhIngan Dujmey law'qu' SommeyDaq...

>For example, can I (loosely) express the idea of "the long road's stones" as:
>
>{He tIq naghmey}?

You could, though the mismatch between {He} and "road", and the ambiguity
of {tIq} (be long?  heart?), make this a poor proof of concept example.  I
think you'd need a pretty clear context in order to be confident it would
be read as intended.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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