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Re: adverbials (was Re: KLBC)

Alan Anderson ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

ja' ter'eS:
> My point is that, understanding time- and place-
> stamps to be functional adverbs,...

I neither share nor agree with that understanding.

> and having no
> compelling evidence that they are not equivalent
> to a true adverb,...

You don't find Marc Okrand's description of the "special" place nouns  
to be compelling evidence?

   ...the concepts expressed by the English adverbs "here",
   "there", and "everywhere" are expressed by nouns in Klingon:...

Nouns.  Not adverbs.  Not even "adverbials".  Nouns.

If by "true adverb" you mean words labeled in the vocabulary as  
adverbials, then there's still more evidence that they are a category  
apart.  With the possible exception of {-Ha'}, they never appear with  
noun or verb suffixes.  They have never been seen in canon with more  
than one associated with a single verb.

That sentence bears repeating:  They have never been seen in canon  
with more than one associated with a single verb.  Claiming  
essentially that anything with a Type 5 noun suffix acts adverbially  
in order to justify putting two adverbials with one verb is begging  
the question.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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