On 5/1/2019 2:55 PM, SuStel wrote:
Thirdly, {maS SaqmeH Qu’} is ungrammatical because you can’t put a verb in the middle of a noun-noun possessive construction.
Says who? *SaqmeH Qu'* is a noun phrase, and noun phrases can count as the "noun" parts of a noun-noun construction. Are you saying that if I have a *pe'meH taj*/cutting knife, /I can't talk about the *jonwI' pe'meH taj*/engineer's cutting knife/?
Here's another unambiguous counterexample: *loS... qIb HeHDaq, 'u' SepmeyDaq Sovbe'lu'bogh lenglu'meH He ghoSlu'bogh retlhDaq 'oHtaH. */It waits... on the edge of the galaxy, beside a passage to unknown regions of the universe/ (SkyBox 99) The interesting part is *He ghoSlu'bogh retlhDaq*/beside a passage, next to a way which one follows./ Here you have clearly have *He ghoSlu'bogh*/passage, way which one follows/ modifying *retlhDaq* /at the area next to/, where a verb comes between the component nouns. And of course there's the infamous *romuluSngan Sambogh 'ej HoHbogh nejwI'* /Romulan hunter-killer probe,/ a device made by Romulans, not one which hunts and kills Romulans. A noun-noun construction where one of the component noun phrases is *Sambogh 'ej HoHbogh nejwI'.* Clearly, you can put a lot of non-nouns between terms in a noun-noun construction. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name