[83944] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Topic (was Re: Specifying distance traveled)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Anderson)
Fri Jan 11 22:57:13 2008
In-Reply-To: <4787C6DA.6050601@trimboli.name>
From: Alan Anderson <aranders@insightbb.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:53:50 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Jan 11, 2008, at 2:43 PM, David Trimboli wrote:
> It's not necessarily the only example, but it IS the only unambiguous
> example. There's another: {HaqwI''e' DaH yISam}. Although TKD
> describes
> this as the object migrating to the other side of the {DaH}, I don't
> trust the layman's explanations given by Okrand.
That's not the explanation given in TKD. You might be
misunderstanding it; you're certainly mischaracterizing it. Okrand
actually says that the *adverbial* can come in the unusual position,
not that the topic-marked object "migrates".
