tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 21 08:08:09 2007
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RE: Positioning for emphasis
Voragh wrote:
> > 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.
DloraH:
>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.
In the first paragraph, Okrand avoids the word "subject"; he says
"object-verb-noun construction" to refer to what we would call OVS
(object-verb-subject). In the second paragraph, he repeats the phrase
"object noun" twice in the same sentence. "Object" is thus emphasized
three times in two very short paragraphs.
Both paragraphs are in the "Placement of Adverbial Elements" section of the
TKD Addendum. This pattern is not mentioned anywhere else WRT other parts
of speech. In our two known examples, it only happens with adverbials. Do
you know of others?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons