Compound nouns—final decision!

Started by Kì'eyawn, February 24, 2011, 11:13:58 PM

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Kì'eyawn

Kaltxì ma smuktu,

So, after mulling it over a bit, Karyu Pawl says (with his apologies) that he's decided that ALL compound nouns will take case markers on the head noun.  After too many questions came up, like whether to stick a second case marker on the end of Utral ayMokriyä, or whether lì'fya leNa'vi "counts" as a proper, compound noun, he decided the best route was to simplify things.  So:

Ayvitrayä Ramunongit

Utralit ayMokriyä

lì'fyati leNa'vi

ayRamit aLusìng

eltuti lefngap


etc.

The case marker still goes on the name when a compound is a title-plus-name (e.g., Karyu Pawlit); and when a proper noun is only one word—well, that ought to be obvious (e.g., Kelutralit).

Apologies again for the confusion while that was getting sorted out.
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Kemaweyan

Irayo. I'm very happy of it :) I think it makes more sense than previous concept (ayRam aLusìngit). Irayo nìtxan!!! ;)
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Prrton

Quote from: Kemaweyan on February 24, 2011, 11:18:35 PM
Irayo. I'm very happy of it :) I think it makes more sense than previous concept (ayRam aLusìngit). Irayo nìtxan!!! ;)

Molteie!

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Quote from: Prrton on February 24, 2011, 11:34:41 PM
Quote from: Kemaweyan on February 24, 2011, 11:18:35 PM
Irayo. I'm very happy of it :) I think it makes more sense than previous concept (ayRam aLusìngit). Irayo nìtxan!!! ;)

Molteie!

Most definitely! I was hoping I wouldn't have to get used to putting case endings on adjectives lol. Fì'pxareri irayo nìtxan :)

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Double case marker would be extremely confusing..
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Sireayä mokri

Yeah, that's clever, I'm glad Pawl decided for simplicity. We don't really need a rule that only causes confusion.
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`Eylan Ayfalulukanä

Although in many cases, it should be fairly obvious which noun gets the case marker, is there any formal definition of 'head noun'?

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Quote from: `Eylan Ayfalulukanä on February 26, 2011, 04:09:51 AM
Although in many cases, it should be fairly obvious which noun gets the case marker, is there any formal definition of 'head noun'?

The noun everything attributing to :)




Ayvitra Ramunongit

Utralit ayMokri

lì'fyati leNa'vi

ayRamit aLusìng

eltuti lefngap
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