[87590] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: qoSwIj
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Doty)
Mon Jan 4 23:21:47 2010
In-Reply-To: <4B42B4B4.4070108@trimboli.name>
From: Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:51:57 -0800
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 19:40, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
>
> TKD defines "adverbial" to be a specific list of words, and {DaHjaj}
> isn't one of them.
Well, actually, TKD defines an adverbial a word that "usually come[s]
at the beginning of a sentence and describe[s] the manner of the
activity." A list then follows, but nowhere does it say that this
list is complete or exhaustive.
> (Yes, it behaves as an
> "adverbial" in the general linguistic sense, but that's not what we're
> talking about here.)
What are we talking about, then? The example you give from TKW
clearly has <DaHjaj> acting as an adverbial:
> DaHjaj SuvwI''e' jIH.
> Today I am a warrior. (TKW 203)
This is ungrammatical with everything we know about
predicate-nominals, unless <DaHjaj> is an adverbial...
Chris
