[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.


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Lieven L. Litaer
aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"
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http://klingon.wiki/En/WordOrder


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