tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 05 05:20:21 2010
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Re: qoSwIj
On 1/5/2010 8:12 AM, Tracy Canfield wrote:
> 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.
All right, chalk it up to a poor turn of phrase on my part.
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> 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
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>>> 5.4 Adverbials
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>>> 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".
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>> 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)."
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>> I was not interpreting the phrase "these words."
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>> 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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