[tlhIngan Hol] One more day

[SuStel]

On 10/10/2017 12:51 PM, nIqolay Q wrote:
>
>     I don't see these as a spectrum, and these suffixes don't express
>     what I thought of the nouns at the time; they tell what I think of
>     them when I say the sentence.
>
> It's interesting that you don't see these suffixes as a spectrum. I 
> thought it was a good example of a spectrum of something like 
> "increasing belief on my part that this thing can or should be 
> described by this noun", from *-qoq* ("obviously not such a thing") to 
> *-na'* ("definitely such a thing"). That's a good point about how they 
> apply at the time of speaking, though. (At first I was going to argue 
> that in the right context they could be taken to mean "what I thought 
> of them at the time", like if they were contrasted with each other in 
> some kind of temporal sequence, but I think that's mostly just because 
> I really liked that example and want to salvage it somehow.)

Noun qualification suffixes applying to what a participant in the 
sentence is not a complete impossibility, though I don't like it. We've 
seen hints of similar in the verb qualification suffixes. But we haven't 
actually seen anything like this in nouns so far as I know, so no point 
trying to find a way to make it so.

You might construct a similar argument based on aspect suffixes and 
*-ghach:* *SuvchoHghach SuvtaHghach Suvpu'ghach* for something like 
/fight from start to finish./ There's an unmistakable sequence here, but 
it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. And with this one there's 
actually little point to nominalizing it; just say *SuvchoH SuvtaH 
Suvpu'.* Interpret it with full stops after each word if you must.

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SuStel
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