tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 26 18:20:41 2009
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Re: The topic marker -'e'
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: The topic marker -'e'
- Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:19:45 -0500
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Indeed. How can it be read any other way but "for him" modifying
"knife"? Certainly that's how you'd diagram the phrase in English: an
adjectival prepositional phrase modifying "knife". (With some context
it could be adverbial instead, modifying something else...)
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:14 PM, David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Christopher Doty wrote:
>> It's not, e.g., 'a for-him knife', it's 'a knife for him.'
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> What's the difference?
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