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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/22/2022 10:44 AM, D qunen'oS
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAP7F2cJQKC8dEXvvcHfYfhOw6CDKxLCrne5CyKY+P4PR0UKWkQ@mail.gmail.com">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?</blockquote>
<p>No. You have read this exactly the opposite of how I intended it.
When I said there was nothing ungrammatical about it, that doesn't
mean it says what you want it to say. It means that there's
nothing wrong with the syntax. I don't think the version with <b>ngIq</b>
has that <b>ngIq</b> in a sensible place.<br>
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