Ok, thanks!
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:
ngIq Soch yIn vIghro'
each of the seven lives of a cat
(In Greece cats are considered to have seven lives).
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.
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).>
(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.>)
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