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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/5/2016 11:41 AM, Rhona Fenwick
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<p>jIjatlhpu' jIH:<br>
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<p>> <span>But in {rugh bIQSIp}, {bIQSIp} by virtue of its
position is clearly</span></p>
<p><span>> qualifying the type of {rugh} - that is, "hydrogen
of antimatter":</span></p>
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<p>mujang SuStel, jatlh:</p>
<p>> I think you've got that backward: in <b>rugh bIQSIp,</b>
<b>rugh</b> is qualifying</p>
<p>> the type of <b>bIQSIp.</b> It's hydrogen, of the
antimatter kind.</p>
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<p>Qualifying in the linguistic sense, yes, you're absolutely
right.</p>
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<p>That said, in a genitive of composition like this, N2 forms a
subset of N1: a slice of meat, a page of a novel, grains of
quadrotriticale. That's the only sense in which I meant that
N2 was qualifying N1 (in the Merriam-Webster, "<span>to reduce
from a general to a particular or restricted form</span>") -
not grammatically, only pragmatically. I should have used
"select" or "specify" or something similar, to avoid the
technical connotations of "qualify".</p>
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<p>That doesn't work in every N-N, though. in <b>baS 'In,</b> we're
not talking about drums being a subset of all things metal; we're
talking about metal drums being a subset of all drums. Yes, it's
true for phrases like <i>meat slice</i> and <i>novel pages,</i>
but not for others like <i>Klingon language</i> or <i>home
building</i> <b>(juH qach)</b>.</p>
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