[tlhIngan Hol] ordering and scope of adverbials relative to timestamps

[Lieven L. Litaer]

Am 08.02.2019 um 10:48 schrieb De'vID:
> Do you consider the sentence order to be fixed (with time stamps always 
> ahead of adverbials, for example), 
Yes, that's my opinion too.

> wrong or just might affect the emphasis and not the meaning? Or would 
> you interpret the scope to change? 

I think the problem here is not the word order, but the question whether 
{tlhoS} can modify the time stamp. I think it cannot. From my feeling, 
the adverbial modifies the entire sentence, so the meaning would remain 
"last year, something almost happened".

> How would you say "almost one year 
> ago [something happened]"? {wa' ben tugh [qaSpu' wanI']}?

I would try to make it two sentences: one for the event, one for the 
time that's not finished yet.

{wa' ben [something happens], 'ach wej qaS wanI' DISjaj.}

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