[tlhIngan Hol] placement of adverb
Lieven L. Litaer
levinius at gmx.de
Thu Apr 13 00:49:27 PDT 2023
I just noticed that a meaning of a sentence can change depending on
where an adverb is placed. I'm not sure if there is a rule forbidding,
or if there are even examples for that.
See this:
{not bIQong 'e' vISov.}
"I know that you never sleep"
vs.
{bIQong not 'e' vISov.}
"I never knew that you sleep."
Can I do that?
TKD 6.7 (add) says that "the adverbial precedes the object-verb-noun
construction". In the above example, {'e'} is the object of the verb
{Sov}, so I think it's correct. – Or did I forget something?
I somehow feel there is a canon example for this (x not 'e'), but I just
can't remember.
--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"
http://www.tlhInganHol.com
http://klingon.wiki/En/WordOrder
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