<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 15:58, D qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Ok, thanks!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The only "problem" with this matter, is that -if I understand correctly- we can't use {ngIq} on a noun with a number. For example we can't say:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">ngIq Soch yIn vIghro'</div><div dir="auto">each of the seven lives of a cat</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(In Greece cats are considered to have seven lives).<br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>Right. I think this would be disallowed by the rule that the noun following {ngIq} can't be explicitly plural, since {Soch} would make {yIn} plural.<div><br></div><div>I actually did suggest to Dr. Okrand that one option to disambiguate the meaning of {ngIq} might be to use {wa'} with it (like the somewhat redundant "one single X" in English). He wrote: <If I’m right about the “one after another” interpretation of {ngIq}, I don’t think {wa’ ngIq} or {ngIq wa’} is needed (whether it’s grammatical or not).></div><div><br></div><div>(His reference to his interpretation is to this sentence, which I quoted earlier: <The notion of sequence, of “one after the other,” comes from the way the world (universe? galaxy?) works. Unless things are happening simultaneously, they’re happening one after the other.>)<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>--<br></div><div dir="ltr">De'vID</div></div></div>