Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ    Attic   

Re: Syntactic Differentiation of Adverbial vs. Adjectival Adpositions

From:Michael Poxon <mike@...>
Date:Sunday, September 7, 2008, 12:51
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. >

Reply

Alex Bicksler <burtonlang@...>