On 9/7/2019 7:17 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
I'm talking about cats in general..
And after I've talked for quite some time, I want to shift the topic of the discussion to the ancient cats in particular.
Would the following be correct/acceptable ?
{yadda yadda yadda vIghro'mey, yadda yadda yadda vIghro'mey, yadda yadda yadda vIghro'mey, yadda yadda yadda vIghro'mey.
vIghro'mey tIQ'e'.. (as for the ancient cats..)
..and the yadda yadda continues, but now for the ancient cats..}
Would this use of {-'e'} in order to describe a change of topic/the next topic, be correct ?
Or would the {vIghro'mey tIQ'e'} be marked/overmarked, or whatever the jay' you call it ?
This is fine. When Okrand was talking about *-'e'* at the front being marked, he meant when you are using it to move an object noun in front of an adverbial, like so: *HaqwI''e' DaH yISam*/Find the SURGEON now!/ It turns out that using topic nouns just as a sentence topic without being a subject or object is not marked. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name