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Re: KLBC (adverbials)

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

--- Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:

> IOW *{Doqqu'bogh Doch loQ
> vIparHa'} is not possible 
> because {loQ} would come between the verb and its
> object.
> 

Actually, you could do it: {Doqqu'bogh Doch'e' loQ 
vIparHa'}. (by analogy with {HaqwI'e' DaH yIsam}).

> As it happens, {Doq} is a bad example to use as this
> ter'eS's example can 
> easily be rewritten:
> 
>    loQ Doch Doqqu' vIparHa'
>    I like the red thing a little bit.
> 
> which (to me at least) is quite clear.  

This is absolutely true, and is the main reason
why I would apply the adverbial to the {-bogh}'ed
verb in the other case: because a simple way of
saying this is so available, the more "convoluted"
way must be interpreted as saying something
different.

{loQ Doch Doqqu' vIparHa'} can only be "I like the
red thing a little".

{loQ Doqqu'bogh Doch vIparHa'} _could_ be read as
"I like the red thing a little", but why go to 
the trouble of this construction if that's all 
you intend to say, since the previous construction
does the job nicely? So if I did see this
construction, to me it could only mean that the
writer intends the adverb to affect the first,
{-bogh}'ed verb, and not the main verb.

-- ter'eS

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