tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 09 11:36:07 2001
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Re: Expelling Ambiguity
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Expelling Ambiguity
- Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 13:35:20 CDT
- In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 09 May 2001 10:21:22 -0700
SuStel:
> > I feel certain that the position of a time reference at the
> > beginning of a
> > sentence is mentioned by Okrand somewhere, but I don't have my
> > books with me
> > when I'm at work! Does anyone know what the source is?
>
Qov:
> I don't have the book with me at work either. It's in the syntax
> section of the addendum to TKD. Something to the effect of '... we now
> know more about the requirement of adverbs to come at the beginning of
> a sentence, what is actually happening is that they precede the main
> part of the sentence but can follow a word indicating a time.' That's
> nowhere near an exact quote.
>
if that's what SuStel was thinking of, it goes like this:
(TKD, Addendum, p 179, 6.7. Placement of Adverbial elements)
"It is possible for an element of another type to precede the
adverb. Most commonly this is a time element."
It doesn't say anything about the ordering of "time element"s
and other "element of another type"s (i.e. other than subject
or object).
Marc Ruehlaender
aka HomDoq
[email protected]