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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/10/2017 12:51 PM, nIqolay Q
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<p>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. <br>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">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 <b>-qoq</b> ("obviously not such a thing") to <b>-na'</b>
("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
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<p>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.</p>
<p>You might construct a similar argument based on aspect suffixes
and <b>-ghach:</b> <b>SuvchoHghach SuvtaHghach Suvpu'ghach</b>
for something like <i>fight from start to finish.</i> 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 <b>SuvchoH SuvtaH Suvpu'.</b> Interpret
it with full stops after each word if you must.<br>
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