On 8/10/2017 11:43 AM, De'vID wrote:
On Aug 10, 2017 17:06, "SuStel" <sustel@trimboli.name <mailto:sustel@trimboli.name>> wrote:
On 8/10/2017 10:38 AM, De'vID wrote:
How would you write "he returns from the great hall at the Federation command centre on Earth"?
tera' DIvI' ra'ghom qach vaS'a'vo' chegh
ghunchu'wI' is right: you can't put those type 5 suffixes in the middle of this.
Why not? It's not a noun-noun construction, it's a chain of locatives. I think multiple locatives is like multiple adverbials: there hasn't been a canon example, but nothing forbids it (unless there's a rule I've overlooked).
You wrote: *[vaS'a']vo' [tera'Daq DIvI' ra'ghom qach]Daq chegh** **[tera'Daq DIvI' ra'ghom qachDaq vaS'a']vo' chegh* Your brackets show locatives and froms affecting entire phrases that include other locatives or froms. This is exactly what the noun-noun restriction prohibits. You can't say this any more than you can say *mIvDaq yIHvo'*//to mean /from the tribble [that is] in the helmet./ The phrase **mIvDaq yIH* itself is illegal. A syntactic noun cannot be the genitive to a head noun. At best, *mIvDaq yIHvo'* can mean /in the helmet, from the tribble,/ but there is absolutely no connection (no genitive relationship) between the tribble and the helmet. The two words might happen to sit next to each other in a larger sentence, but they have no direct relationship. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name