[Tlhingan-hol] Type 5 on first noun

[qurgh lungqIj]

Is that just a location and a separate noun and not a noun-noun
construction?

The feast doesn't belong to Qam-Chee, it's happening at Qam-Chee. It's like
he dropped a verb from the sentence:

qamchIyDaq (qaS) 'uQ'a' - the feast {happened) at Qam-Chee

qurgh

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:46 AM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:

> Here's a chapter heading from paq'batlh:
>
>    qamchIyDaq 'uQ'a'
>    The Feast at Qam-Chee
>
> This is not the first instance of Okrand violating the rule in TKD that
> the first noun of a noun-noun construction not have a type 5 suffix on it.
>
> I have a theory as to what's going on: the suffix is allowed as long as
> the phrase is not part of a verbal clause. We've only ever seen this
> violation in standalong noun phrases. (And let's face reality: it's because
> Okrand is translating from standalone English noun phrases that include
> prepositions, and he's forgotten the rule.)
>
> --
> SuStel
> http://trimboli.name
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tlhingan-hol mailing list
> Tlhingan-hol at kli.org
> http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kli.org/pipermail/tlhingan-hol/attachments/20160205/915dea2b/attachment-0001.html>