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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/1/2019 2:55 PM, SuStel wrote:<br>
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<div class="">Thirdly, {maS SaqmeH Qu’} is ungrammatical because
you can’t put a verb in the middle of a noun-noun possessive
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<p>Says who? <b>SaqmeH Qu'</b> is a noun phrase, and noun phrases
can count as the "noun" parts of a noun-noun construction. Are
you saying that if I have a <b>pe'meH taj</b><i> cutting knife,
</i>I can't talk about the <b>jonwI' pe'meH taj</b><i>
engineer's cutting knife</i>?</p>
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<p>Here's another unambiguous counterexample:</p>
<p><b>loS... qIb HeHDaq, 'u' SepmeyDaq Sovbe'lu'bogh lenglu'meH He
ghoSlu'bogh retlhDaq 'oHtaH.<br>
</b><i>It waits... on the edge of the galaxy, beside a passage to
unknown regions of the universe</i> (SkyBox 99)</p>
<p>The interesting part is <b>He ghoSlu'bogh retlhDaq</b><i> beside
a passage, next to a way which one follows.</i> Here you have
clearly have <b>He ghoSlu'bogh</b><i> passage, way which one
follows</i> modifying <b>retlhDaq</b> <i>at the area next to</i>,
where a verb comes between the component nouns.</p>
<p>And of course there's the infamous <b>romuluSngan Sambogh 'ej
HoHbogh nejwI'</b> <i>Romulan hunter-killer probe,</i> a device
made by Romulans, not one which hunts and kills Romulans. A
noun-noun construction where one of the component noun phrases is
<b>Sambogh 'ej HoHbogh nejwI'.</b> Clearly, you can put a lot of
non-nouns between terms in a noun-noun construction.<br>
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