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Re: Adverb placement (was Re: The topic marker -'e')

Christopher Doty ([email protected])



On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 21:31, ghunchu'wI' <[email protected]> wrote:
> I see the brackets and I understand what you intend by them.  I
> disagree with that interpretation.  See The Klingon Dictionary's
> explanation of the Sentence as Object construction for why I consider
> what you call "this clause" to be a separate full sentence and not
> actually part of the sentence containing the {'e'}.

"separate and full" does not necessarily mean that it isn't embedded.
In the English "I see that you went to the store," "you went to the
store" is a separate and full sentence unto itself, but it is ALSO
EMBEDDED.






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