On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Lieven <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
TKD tells us that the adverbial comes at the beginning of a sentence. The question is, how is a sentence defined, or wouldn't it be better to define this as "the adverbial comes at the beginning of a [linguistic-term-here] clause"?
The appendix clarifies this to mean that the adverbial comes in front of the object-verb-subject construction, and that the adverbial can be preceded by other elements, such as time stamps. mayqel's question can apply to many adverbials:
ghorgh bIghungmo' bIHegh? bIghungmo' ghorgh bIHegh?
bIpuvtaHvIS qatlh bIbom? qatlh bIpuvtaHvIS bIbom?
Question words aren't technically listed with adverbials, so they might not fall under the same object-verb-subject rule. That said, I can think of at least one example of a question word that goes with the main clause: *potlhbe'chugh yay qatlh pe''eghlu'?*