tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 08 13:19:44 2002
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Aw: Re: adverbials
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- Subject: Aw: Re: adverbials
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:18:56 +0200 (CEST)
Von: Andrew Strader <[email protected]>
> I know that it seems this way at first, but there is more to the matter than
> that. The main problem is that -mo' is a fundamentally different kind of
> suffix than -mey. -mo' and its kin are really better thought of as phrase
> suffixes, rather than noun suffixes. (See TKD 4.4).
>
ah, I have to take it back then. there is a substantial difference
between -mey and -mo'.
> The bottom line is that a phrase like "rammo'" modifies the core OVS
> sentence
> as a whole. That is, it's acting in an adverbial sense. And it just so
> happens that adverbials occur in the "head" (or "header" if you like)
> position of the sentence.
>
of course. whether you see rammo' as a noun with a suffix or as
something else (a phrase, maybe?) doesn't change this.
I still prefer to see it as a noun (with a suffix)
Marc Ruehlaender
aka HomDoq
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