tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 24 17:54:37 2009

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]

Re: pu'jIn

David Trimboli ([email protected])

From: David Trimboli <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: pu'jIn
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:53:41 -0500
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
References: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A6011382A8826B@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)

André Müller wrote:
> The "distinction" between {XY} and {X Y} might cause a problem.
> Is there any known semantic or phonological or syntactic or morphological
> (read: ANY) difference between a nounâ€“noun construction and a compound in
> Klingon, besides the orthography?
> Might {X Y} be a possessive construction actually? Can {X} in {X Y} be
> modified by suffixes or even adjectives? If so, then it might not be
> (linguistically) appropriate to call them compounds, but rather possessive
> constructions or something similar.

X can have any noun suffixes except Type 5.

-- 
SuStel
tlhIngan Hol MUSH
http://trimboli.name/mush

References:
- RE: pu'jIn
  - From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- RE: pu'jIn
  - From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Re: pu'jIn
  - From: Christopher Doty <[email protected]>
- Re: pu'jIn
  - From: David Trimboli <[email protected]>
- Re: pu'jIn
  - From: Christopher Doty <[email protected]>
- Re: pu'jIn
  - From: David Trimboli <[email protected]>
- Re: pu'jIn
  - From: Christopher Doty <[email protected]>
- Re: pu'jIn
  - From: David Trimboli <[email protected]>
- Re: pu'jIn
  - From: AndrÃ MÃller <[email protected]>

Prev by Date: Re: The topic marker -'e'
Next by Date: Re: Comparatives
Previous by thread: Re: pu'jIn
Next by thread: Re: pu'jIn
Index(es):