[tlhIngan Hol] The unforgivable sin

DloraH seruq at bellsouth.net
Tue Jul 12 15:31:59 PDT 2016


Before reading any responses, I was thinking [cha' HIvje' qa'vIn] "the
coffee of two cups."


> I like {cha' qa'vIn HIvje'}, because it fits the logic of the N1-N2 phrase.
...
> 
> I don't know of an example that tells us how to quantify coffee. It
> could be the way you said it, {cha' qa'vIn HIvje'} "two coffee's
> glasses." Or it could be the other way around, {cha' HIvje' qa'vIn}
> "two glasses' coffee". Or it might be {qa'vIn cha' HIvje'} "two
> glasses of coffee".

Yes, but it is the coffee we want to talk about, not the container
itself.  With [HIvje'] as n2, it would be the container that we would be
talking about.


- DloraH





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