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Re: Wool? In tlhIngan Hol?

Lieven Litaer ([email protected])

• From: "Lieven Litaer" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Wool? In tlhIngan Hol?
• Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:21:47 +0200
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> P.S.  Can you indeed insert an adjective into a
> noun-noun construction (i.e., can it be treated as a
> noun-clause+noun clause construction)?  Could I have
> (grammatically) written {... SuvwI' quv Hoch'e' ...}?

Yes, [noun+adjective] can be treated as [noun].

I don'T know what you try to write above, but it is correct to say
{SuvwI' quv} "honored warrior"
and then
{SuvwI' quv Duj} "honored warrior's ship"

The topic marker then of course marks the topic:
{SuvwI''e' quv Duj} "ship of the honored WARRIOR"
(i.e. not somebody else's ship)
vs.
{SuvwI' quv Duj'e'} "the SHIP of the honored warrior"
(i.e. the SHIP of the warrior, not his shoes)

hope this helps,
  Quvar.
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