tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Sep 25 14:47:55 2007
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RE: Positioning for emphasis
Voragh:
> >> 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!"
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.
Voragh:
> >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?
DloraH:
>You wrote "it only happens with adverbials"; Okrand never stated that. We
>see
>it happening only to adverbials here, because this section is about "Placement
>of adverbial elements".
Actually, I wrote "in our two known examples, it only happens with adverbials."
AFAIK there are two - and only two - examples of this fronting of a
topicalized noun. Both occur with adverbials. I suppose if you want be
even more careful, we should say "with the adverbial {DaH}.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons