tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 24 09:20:46 1995
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Re: Adverbial Concepts
According to R.B Franklin:
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> On Fri, 21 Apr 1995 [email protected] wrote:
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> It it true that an adverbial may come after an object noun, when it is
> topicalized with the suffix {-'e'}.
While I won't declare this wrong, I've never noticed this done,
except in discussion on this list with descriptions about how
OTHER languages handle topicalizations. Here, discussion
concluded that Okrand seems to have misnamed this grammatical
entity, since he never uses it as a true topicalizer in his
examples, but instead uses it as a form of emphasis.
I believe that it was Japanese which would topicalize a noun at
the beginning of a sentence and then not especially need to
have it stated as either subject or object.
Anyway, after Okrand published TKD, Krankor came up with the
idea of using {-'e'} to mark head nouns of relative clauses
whose verbs have both an explicit subject and object. Okrand
later approved this idea.
Meanwhile, placing an object before an adverbial is different
enough that I would expect to remember it as an outstanding
exception. Would you mind citing the canon or rule on this?
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