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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/4/2019 9:08 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Skybox 1 has (among other sentences) the following phrase:
{juHqo' Qo'noSvo' loghDaq lengtaHvIS tlhInganpu'} with the translation
"..expansion of the klingon people from their homeworld of kronos into
space.."
Shouldn't the "from their homeworld of kronos" be given as {Qo'noS
juHqo'vo'} instead of {juHqo' Qo'noSvo'} ?</pre>
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<p>Not really. <b>juHqo' Qo'noSvo'</b> is just an example of
apposition. <i>From Kronos, the homeworld.</i></p>
<p>What's interesting about this to me is that a <b>-vo'</b> isn't
added to both words. If I were writing this sentence I would have
said <b>juHqo'vo' Qo'noSvo'</b><b>.</b> You can imagine a comma
between the two words. Lacking a <b>-vo'</b> on <b>juHqo',</b>
and the way type 5 suffixes migrate to the ends of verbs, suggest
to me that type 5 noun suffixes act more like clitics than simple
noun inflections.</p>
<p>You're going to ask me what a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitic">clitic</a> is.
Basically, it's a morpheme that is more than an affix, kind of
like its own word, but it can't exist on its own. A prominent
example is possession in English: we add <i>-'s</i> to words to
indicate possession. It's not a simple inflection, because the <i>-'s</i>
can encompass entire phrases: <i>We went to the Queen of
England's castle.</i> The Queen is the possessor of the castle,
but the phrase <i>of England</i> gets included in the phrase that
is the possessor. <i>The Queen's castle; the Queen of England's
castle.</i><br>
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