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Re: KLBC: Adverbials



According to Terry Donnelly:
> 
> 
> William H. Martin writes:
> >
> > According to R. B. Franklin:
> >>
> >> Have you seen any canon examples that indicate whether you can negate
> >> adverbials?...
> >
> > While it would be enormously useful, no, there is no canon and
> > no grammatical justification for doing this.
> 
> What about {Do'} and {Do'Ha'}?  (the latter is on p. 171 in TKD).  

{Do'} is both an adverbial AND a verb (as if it were two
different words with similar meaning, but different grammatical
functions). {Do'Ha'} is translated as "It is unfortunate,"
which is clearly the verbal use of the word {Do'} with the
{-Ha'} verbal suffix. If it were being used as an adverbial
here, it would need another verb. It stands alone.

> P.S.  Really nice summary of grammar, charghwI', in your last post.

qatlho'.

> P.P.S. I'm adopting a *nom de Hol* for the list; from now on just call me 
> {ter'eS}

Welcome, ter'eS.

> ter'eS

charghwI'
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