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Re: Arambougiania Citation Redux

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Subject: Re: Arambougiania Citation Redux
From: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:12:59 -0400
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Quoting "T. Michael Keesey" <keesey@gmail.com>:

I know Celtic grammar has different word order than most of us are
used to, but I can't make any sense of "Valley the Fountain". And does
this mean that _Pantydraco_ means "valley the dragon"?

I believe, in a sequence of two noun phrases, the second is interpreted as the possessor of the first: hence, 'valley of the fountain/spring'. "Pant y ddraig" would indeed be 'valley of the dragon'.

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Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan

"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."
    --Edwin H. Land

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