<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:31 AM, mayqel qunenoS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">qurgh:<span class="gmail-"><br>
> Where is the rule that they can't be part of a<br>
> noun-noun construction, I must have missed<br>
> it? </span></p>
<p dir="ltr">SuStel wrote this a few days ago, at the "who shall call them from the twilight ?" thread.</p></blockquote><div>I hadn't read it. Looking back, he merely said it was unknown whether they can be used in that way. <br><br>TKD says that the "word fits into the sentence in the position that would be occupied by the answer". To me this means, if the answer is {tIn SuStel Duj}, and the missing information I want is {SuStel}, then the way to ask the question would be {tIn 'Iv Duj}. The same would seem to make sense for {nuq}. If the answer is {Hab SoSlI' Quch} and the missing information is {Quch} then the question would be {Hab SoSlI' nuq?}.<br><br>I don't believe this works for every situation though. I found {nuq Dargh DaneH} in the archive as an attempt to say "What type of tea do you want?". I don't think that works, since the answer to {nuq Dargh DaneH} would be something like {Duj Dargh DaneH} - "I want the ship's tea" with {nuq} filling the space of the owner/possessor of the tea, not the type/brand of tea. For that you probably do need to switch to something like {Dargh Segh DaneHbogh yIngu'}.<br><br></div><div>qurgh</div></div></div></div>