Agreed. The point here is that Okrand tells us how one adverbial functions in a sentence. He leaves us clueless as to how multiple adverbials would interact, or even if they don’t interact at all and merely both add their meaning to the main verb.

I’m not saying that’s how it works. It just seems to have never occurred to Maltz that anybody would want to put two adverbials in one sentence.

For that matter, it could be the case that an adverbial has a slot in the sentence’s grammar just like a suffix has a “Type” slot on a noun or verb. You can’t have two suffixes of the same type. Maybe we can’t have two adverbials.

Canon could prove otherwise, of course.

I’m grinning at the activity I’m sure I just sparked among those who keep up with canon and organize their search capabilities...

pItlh

charghwI’ ‘utlh
(ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)




On Jan 17, 2022, at 10:59 AM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

On 1/17/2022 10:06 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
jIH:
> Of course, if I'm wrong, I'd love to be corrected.

However, I don't think I'm wrong, since there's the adverb {DaH} which perhaps no one would disagree if we used it as..

DaH vabDot bISuvqangbe'
even now you are unwilling to fight

So, yep! That's it. Case closed. This answers the problem, (or at least *my* problem).. So off to pdf this thread and add it to my notes.

Not so fast! Who says that DaH is modifying vabDot in that sentence?

I think it's perfectly possible that each adverbial should be considered to modify the entire sentence including all the other adverbials. So in DaH vabDot bISuvqangbe' we have:

DaH modifies vabDot bISuvqangbe':
Now, you are even willing to fight.

vabDot modifies DaH bISuvqangbe':
It is even the case that you are willing to fight now.

If this is correct, then this sentence is not evidence that adverbials directly modify each other the way you're supposing. Don't jump to conclusions.

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