12 Jul
2016
12 Jul
'16
6:31 p.m.
Before reading any responses, I was thinking [cha' HIvje' qa'vIn] "the coffee of two cups."
I like {cha' qa'vIn HIvje'}, because it fits the logic of the N1-N2 phrase. ...
I don't know of an example that tells us how to quantify coffee. It could be the way you said it, {cha' qa'vIn HIvje'} "two coffee's glasses." Or it could be the other way around, {cha' HIvje' qa'vIn} "two glasses' coffee". Or it might be {qa'vIn cha' HIvje'} "two glasses of coffee".
Yes, but it is the coffee we want to talk about, not the container itself. With [HIvje'] as n2, it would be the container that we would be talking about. - DloraH