[tlhIngan Hol] One dog or five cats ?

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Sat Sep 23 10:46:36 PDT 2017


On 9/23/2017 1:06 AM, Anthony Appleyard wrote:
> Is this "one only" rule specifically stated? Or merely have no canon 
> examples appeared with more than one verb acting adjectivally on a 
> noun at a time?
>
>     ----Original message----
>     From : sustel at trimboli.name
>     Date : 22/09/2017 - 14:45 (GMTST)
>     To : tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org
>     Subject : Re: [tlhIngan Hol] One dog or five cats ?
>
>     On 9/22/2017 9:34 AM, Anthony Appleyard wrote:
>>     Sorry; is there a rule against directly:?
>>     wa' Human nen yoH
>>     one brave adult human
>
>     So far as we know, we can only use one verb acting adjectivally on
>     a noun at a time.
>
If it were specifically stated, I wouldn't have said "so far as we know."

Okrand has not used such a construction, and he has gone out of his way 
to avoid it. Nothing tells us that we CAN do it. So odds are it's not 
allowed.

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SuStel
http://trimboli.name

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