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RE: Positioning for emphasis

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

> Okrand discusses this in the TKD Addendum in the section 
> titled "Placement 
> of adverbial elements" (TKD 179-80):
> 
>    It was earlier thought that all adverbials (except {neH} "only")
>    come at the beginning of the sentence. This is frequently the
>    case, but what is really going on is that the adverbial
>    precedes the object-verb-noun construction. It is possible
>    for an element of another type to precede the adverb. [...]
>      The adverbial may actually follow the object noun (but
>    still precede the verb) when the object noun is topicalized by
>    means of the nouns suffix {-'e'} (see Section 3.3.5):
> 
>       (HaqwI''e' DaH yISam)   "Find the SURGEON now!"
> 
> Note that Okrand says that it is the *object* noun which is 
> topicalized and 
> shifted to the front of the sentence (actually, he only says 
> it precedes 
> the adverbial), NOT the subject.  Note too that it only happens with 
> adverbials.


ACTUALLY, he says the adverbial may follow the object noun; there is no mention of "subject" either
way; and he doesn't say it ONLY happens with adverbials.
Careful.


DloraH

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