[88241] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: gha'tlhIq
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Fri Sep 3 16:57:46 2010
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 13:48:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <DFD5C087-E525-4868-8BA2-E3898E2B2CDD@gmail.com>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
--- On Fri, 9/3/10, lojmIt tI'wI' nuv <lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com> wrote:
> The time stamp doesn't work for me.
> {tujbogh pem nI' po} has the adjective {nI'} between two
> nouns that I would otherwise take to be a noun-noun
> construction. That doesn't work. There can be no words
> between words in a noun-noun construction.
>
I haven't been following this thread very closely, and I'm not going to comment on timestamps, but do we know for sure that there can be _nothing_ between the nouns in a noun-noun construction? Did Okrand explicitly state this? So something as seemingly natural as {Duj tIn HoD} "The captain of the large ship" is illegal? I thought we'd used this construction pretty freely in the past.
-- ter'eS
