<div dir="auto">jIH:<br>
> yaS HoHpu' bombogh yan 'ej ghIq ngabbogh<br>
SuStel:<br>
> That adverbial is trying to pull the disappearing action into a period of time after the sword killed the officer, but<br>
> you're also trying to use the relative clause to describe the sword that kills the officer. There's nothing ungrammatical<br>
> about doing this, but you're confusing yourself because you're trying to imagine the sword that disappears<br>
> in the future being used to kill someone in the past. The ngIq is meant to refer back to the killing, but it's conjoined<br>
> with the singing. One would be quite justified in reading it this way:<br>
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Ok, this is important. As it seems, there's something here I've been ignoring for years.. (Let's remove the {-pu'} to make this simpler).<br>
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Up until now, I was under the impression that the *only* thing that {yaS HoH bombogh yan 'ej ghIq ngabbogh} can mean is "the officer is killed by the sword which sings and then disappears." Meaning that there is a sword which sings and then disappears, and it is that particular sword which kills the officer.<br>
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But reading your comments, I understand that this sentence can have another meaning too: "the officer is killed by a sword which sings; and after the killing is done this sword disappears".<br>
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Is my understanding correct? Can the {yaS HoH bombogh yan 'ej ghIq ngabbogh} have both these meanings?<br>
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(Of course it isn't something I'd actually use, but -as always- I'm trying to understand how things work).<br>
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