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Re: pu'jIn

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Nov 24 20:55:11 2009

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:53:41 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <6038b7230911241701u18abddaic3a3a333cfa1b308@mail.gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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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 noun–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.

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