No ambiguity in Omina either:
mui loista sundea inedan
mui | loista | sunde-a | ine-da-n
eat | fruit | table + locative | ergative aux + 1ps subj + 3ps obj +
relative suffix
(I eat (it) the fruit (that is) on the table
Mike
> * Logan Kearsley said on 2008-09-05 17:57:34 +0200
> > Consider the sentence "I ate the fruit on the table."
> > In English, this is structurally ambiguous, because the prepositional
> > phrase can apply to the verb or a noun- did I eat fruit which was on
> > the table, or did I eat the fruit while I was on the table?
> > I think someone mentioned a conlang that has a semantic distinction
> > between adverbial and adjectival prepositions; that would be
> > interesting to investigate.
>