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Re: Positioning for emphasis

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

ja' Voragh:

> 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}.

Heh, you're really getting yourself tripped up on this one.  Calling  
it "this fronting of a topicalized noun" is another misstatement of  
what's really written.  The description in TKD describes it as  
"adverbial may actually follow the object noun", not as "topicalized  
noun moves to the front".

The two phrases are not equivalent.  Yours permits putting a  
topicalized object before other type-5-marked nouns, and even seems  
to encourage putting the object before time stamps.  TKD merely notes  
the movement of adverbials.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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