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Re: KLBC: Questions with <'e'>



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]
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