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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/16/2021 3:38 PM, Lieven L. Litaer
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cite="mid:ae0b892b-a97b-5a5f-047e-bea1a11b7e90@gmx.de"><br>
To find more on what we know on apposition, see the page on the
wiki:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://klingon.wiki/En/Apposition" moz-do-not-send="true">http://klingon.wiki/En/Apposition</a></blockquote>
<p>I see that you have <i>just</i> edited that page, so I'm not
going to try any edits now, but the entire section there about
"appositions on <b>-wI'</b> nouns" is wrong. It claims that
phrases like <b>DIr QanwI' taS, wab labwI' jan,</b> and <b>QaDmoHwI'
DIr</b> are examples of apposition because they clarify what
kind of thing the <b>-wI'</b> noun is. That is not what
apposition is.</p>
<p>Apposition is when two proximate noun phrases provide <i>independent</i>
descriptions or names of a thing. <b>DIr QanwI' taS</b> does not
mean <i>a skin protector, a solution;</i> it means <i>a solution
of the skin-protector type.</i> That is genitive and Klingon
indicates the genitive through the noun-noun construction. It
isn't apposition. <b>DIr QanwI' taS, wab labwI' jan,</b> and <b>QaDmoHwI'
DIr</b> are all examples of the genitive noun-noun construction.<br>
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