[87583] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: qoSwIj
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark J. Reed)
Mon Jan 4 18:10:04 2010
In-Reply-To: <4B426F91.5020601@trimboli.name>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 18:08:12 -0500
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:45 PM, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
> I suspect Thorwald meant to emphasize the "today," as you guess above,
> but then you'd have to put {-'e'} on two different verbs in the
> sentence, and that'd be weird. We don't know if that kind of thing is
> allowed.
Two different nouns, you mean. :)
Agreed, it seems odd to have two topics. Does the -'e' in copula
sentences have any emphatic force left? If so, just making the noun
you want to emphasize the topic would seem to work here. But it could
be that the -'e' is pure syntax at this point, in which case I'm not
sure how one would go about adding emphasis.
Tangentially related question: is the -'e' required to be on the
second noun in a copula, or can it be on the first?
-marqoS
