18 Feb
2019
18 Feb
'19
11:22 a.m.
On 2/18/2019 10:41 AM, Lieven L. Litaer wrote:
But I can also supply a counterargument. *vaj malopmeH tlhIHvaD nob SaSuqpu'* /So to celebrate, I've gotten you all a gift./ (Hallmark commercial) Here, the adverbial *vaj* is placed before the purpose clause.
Here, the vaj works more like a conjunction. Using it after the -meH part makes less sense.
Not at all. It's an adverbial, meaning that this sentence is a logical continuation of whatever came before. I think Okrand wasn't really thinking carefully about this issue, and just closely translated the English. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name