[tlhIngan Hol] Reversing the order of {-vo'}

[mayqel qunenoS]

De'vID:
> {tera'Daq DIvI' ra'ghom qachDaq vaS'a'vo' chegh}
jIH:
> the {vaS'a'} is located at the location of the subject of {chegh},
> and from there the subject does the returning.
De'vID:
> But where is the {vaS'a'} relative to the Federation command centre on
> Earth? Consider the following:
> {[vaS'a']vo' [tera'Daq DIvI' ra'ghom qach]Daq chegh}
> {[tera'Daq DIvI' ra'ghom qachDaq vaS'a']vo' chegh}

I am afraid you lost me..

If I hadn't seen the last sentences you posted, (the ones which bear
the [] marks), I would have to reply saying, that at both of your
original sentences (the ones without the []), the {vaS'a'} is
somewhere else in relation to the federation command centre on earth.
I can't specify any other location for the {vaS'a'}, except that it is
the location of the subject of {chegh}, the location from where the
"returning" commences.

Reading the sentences which contain the [] signs, I couldn't
understand anything more. In fact I got confused, because at both of
the sentences we have included in the [] signs, noun-noun
constructions where the noun(s) preceding the final noun bear type-5
suffixes.

qunnoq




On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Alan Anderson <qunchuy at alcaco.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 3:38 AM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> ...Consider the following:
>> {[vaS'a']vo' [tera'Daq DIvI' ra'ghom qach]Daq chegh}
>> {[tera'Daq DIvI' ra'ghom qachDaq vaS'a']vo' chegh}
>
>
> Qo'.
>
> You seem to be suggesting that we parse {tera'Daq DIvI' ra'ghom qach} and
> {tera'Daq DIvI' raghom qachDaq vaS'a'} as noun phrases bearing a Type 5
> suffix on the final noun. However, that treatment violates the prohibition
> of a Type 5 suffix on the first noun of such a phrase.
>
> I will not consider them further.
>
> -- ghunchu'wI'
>
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