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> Datum: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:15:30 +0200
> Von: taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>
> An: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Betreff: Re: Syntactic Differentiation of Adverbial vs. Adjectival Adpositions
> * 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.
>
> In Taruven that sentence would not be ambiguous as either the subject or
> the object would have a suffix of their own.
>
>
> t.
Rejistanian would use the position here: xe'vuana hylik'het jenak'ra = I eat the fruit on
the table.
xe'vuana jenak'ra hylik'het = I eat, while on the table, the fruit.
jenak'ra here means "on the table". I separate pre- and suffixes by a apostrophe.
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