[87227] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: The topic marker -'e'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark J. Reed)
Thu Nov 26 21:21:07 2009
In-Reply-To: <4B0F3602.7030601@trimboli.name>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:19:45 -0500
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Indeed. How can it be read any other way but "for him" modifying
"knife"? Certainly that's how you'd diagram the phrase in English: an
adjectival prepositional phrase modifying "knife". (With some context
it could be adverbial instead, modifying something else...)
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:14 PM, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
> Christopher Doty wrote:
>> It's not, e.g., 'a for-him knife', it's 'a knife for him.'
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> What's the difference?
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