tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 05 05:14:45 2010
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Re: qoSwIj
It's not clear from me how you get from some words being marked as
(adv) in the glossary to adverbial being defined as a specific list.
2010/1/4 David Trimboli <[email protected]>:
> On 1/4/2010 10:50 PM, Tracy Canfield wrote:
>> 2010/1/4 David Trimboli<[email protected]>:
>>> TKD defines "adverbial" to be a specific list of words
>>
>> Does it? The phrasing is
>>
>> 5.4 Adverbials
>>
>> These words usually come at the beginning of a sentence and describe
>> the manner of the activity.
>>
>> It seems like you're interpreting "these words" to refer to the list,
>> but to me the phrase seems to refer to "adverbials".
>
> Yes, if you look in the Addendum word list, you'll find {DaHjaj} is
> translated "today (n)," but there are a bunch of words in the various
> word lists that are translated with the note "(adv)," like {DaH} "now
> (adv)."
>
> I was not interpreting the phrase "these words."
>
> Even if we consider that Klingon grammarians don't distinguish
> "adverbials" as a part of speech, {DaHjaj} is a {DIp}, while all the
> words in 5.4, and presumably all the words labeled "(adv)" or described
> by Okrand as "adverbials," are {chuvmey}.
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