In Mato, a time phrase can occur in two slightly different ways. The word "time" comes first. With a proper noun, it's simply the noun. But any other noun must have an associative suffix on it. In the target language Uma, this phrase always has the noun first with a possessive suffix on the word for time na. Mato:
I had a rule working for the proper noun in which I specified the pattern as c_ni, c_nprop. I wanted to capture the other type of time phrase, so I just made the pattern c_ni, c_n. But while it works for the second type (ni), it doesn't fire for the proper noun (nprop) time phrase. What's wrong?
