On 10/2/2019 7:42 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
Read the following non-Ca'Non sentence from dsc:
dsc "Battle at the Binary Stars"
{mapIm ngIq maH 'e' luQaw'meH ghoS chaH} They come to destroy our individuality. I know that this sentence is non-Ca'Non, but there's something I wonder..
Isn't the {ngIq maH} third person ? So, how can we have the {ma-} on the {pIm} ?
Doesn't this violate the accord rule, or however the @!#! you call it, when the verb prefix doesn't agree with its' subject ?
As with all noun-noun constructions, it's the final noun in the series that determines what "thing" you're talking about. Here, *maH* is acting like a noun and is the final noun. So the phrase *ngIq maH* /each of us individually/ is in the first person. We're talking about /us./ What kind of /us?/ The /taken-as-individuals us./ *mapIm ngIq maH* is correct. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name