[83945] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Topic (was Re: Specifying distance traveled)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Fri Jan 11 23:46:14 2008
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:42:22 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <685285DD-0935-4BAF-9EF3-EB4ECF6C9822@insightbb.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Alan Anderson wrote:
> 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".
Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
SuStel
Stardate 8030.6
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