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Re: qoSwIj

Mark J. Reed ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:45 PM, David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
> I suspect Thorwald meant to emphasize the "today," as you guess above,
> but then you'd have to put {-'e'} on two different verbs in the
> sentence, and that'd be weird. We don't know if that kind of thing is
> allowed.

Two different nouns, you mean. :)

Agreed, it seems odd to have two topics.  Does the -'e' in copula
sentences have any emphatic force left?  If so, just making the noun
you want to emphasize the topic would seem to work here.  But it could
be that the -'e' is pure syntax at this point, in which case I'm not
sure how one would go about adding emphasis.

Tangentially related question: is the -'e' required to be on the
second noun in a copula, or can it be on the first?

-marqoS

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