tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Oct 12 01:50:17 1997
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Re: KLBC: Questions with <'e'>
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Questions with <'e'>
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 01:50:07 -0700
At 21:36 97-10-11 -0700, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
}ja' Qov:
}>...In general 'stuff that goes at the front of the sentence'
}>goes before {'e'} in a sentence-as-object.
}
}What evidence do we have of this, though? While it makes perfect sense to
}assume that {'e'} should come immediately before the verb, Okrand's examples
}commonly put adverbials *after* {'e'}.
}
}(Maybe the fact that it's spelled the same as the suffix {-'e'} isn't just a
}coincidence, and the rule on page 180 of TKD can apply?)
The word {'e'} is a pronoun and the object of the second sentence. I think
in the example this is from the 'stuff' was badly out of place. But I guess
I can picture the word {'e'} topicalizing the previou sentence and having
the 'stuff' come between {'e'} and the verb.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian