[Tlhingan-hol] emphasizing noun suffixes

[SuStel]

On 6/25/2014 9:41 AM, André Müller wrote:
> But then you are saying that nouns would work differently from verbs in
> Klingon.

Well, sure. Nouns are nouns and verbs are verbs. Why should we think 
they work the same?

> In short: It's not true that non-rover suffixes say something about all
> that comes before them.

I didn't make that claim about anything except {-na'}. I believe what is 
true of {-na'} is also true of {-Hey} and {-qoq}. I am certainly not 
saying that all noun suffixes modify everything that comes before them.

If we assume that the type 3 suffixes only modify the root noun, then we 
have no way to account for them modifying type 2 suffixes and not type 4 
suffixes, except to say that it's arbitrary. I'm not ruling that out, 
but I don't think that's it.

If we were talking about a {loDHom}, I think it's clear that we would 
not expect {loDHomna'} to be conforming only that {loD} is the correct 
noun. An N and an N-Hom are two different things. That's type 1. We have 
explicit instructions for at least one type 2 suffix and for all the 
type 4 suffixes. So unless the type 5s are modified by the type 3s 
({Dujna'Daq} "definitely on the ship"?), or unless we're dealing with 
unknown special cases, it's true that type 3s specify the accuracy of 
N-1-2, and not of -4-5.

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