tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Apr 22 12:37:29 1995
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Re: Adverbial Concepts
On Fri, 21 Apr 1995 [email protected] wrote:
> What you say about the placement of adverbials at the beginning of a sent=
> ence
> is true? I had invoked a passage of TKD, p179, =A76.7 regarding placemen=
> t of
> an adverbial after an Object Noun. Unfortunately, I still made a mistake=
> by
> not looking back at the reference at the time I used it.
>
> I should have said: pong'e' tlhIngan DaH vISuq
>
> because the Object Noun needs to be specified with -'e'. Thanks for
> awakening me.
It it true that an adverbial may come after an object noun, when it is
topicalized with the suffix {-'e'}. Topicalizing the noun is not
mandatory, it is used when you want to single out a word for emphasis
(Sec. 3.3.5.). For example:
mughwI' yISam qaja'be'ta'. I did not tell you to find a translator.
maghwI''e' yISam qaja'ta'. I told you to find the TRAITOR.
Also, when using a noun-noun construction, TKD, Sec. 3.4 says you can't
place a Type 5 syntactic marker (like {-'e'}) after the first noun.
Putting an object using {-'e'} before the adverbial is an unusual exception.
Adverbials (except for {neH} and {jay'}) usually come before the object
(Sec. 5.4. & 6.7.)
Your sentence literally says, "Now I acquire a Klingon of a NAME."
Here, you would reverse the words and say {tlhIngan pong} (a name of a
Klingon) or (a Klingon's name) or simply "a Klingon name".
Using {-'e'} in this instance probably isn't necessary. If you
aren't using {-'e'}, then the adverbial would come before the object
and you would simply say:
DaH tlhIngan pong vISuq. (Now I acquire a Klingon name.)
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