On Aug 10, 2017 17:06, "SuStel" <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' cheghghunchu'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