Re: Syntactic Differentiation of Adverbial vs. Adjectival Adpositions

Logan Kearsley <chronosurfer@...> schrieb am 05.09.2008 17:57 +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 nou
Na ming mesamvāng naranoya   You can distinguish between
manisa ay eda-marasena sam   these two sentences in my
edāre:                       conlang like this:

    (1) Ang    məkonday   nihanas   ling prihinoya.
        AGTFOC PST-eat-1s fruit-PAT on   table-LOC
    'I ate the fruit on the table.'

    (2) Ang    məkonday   nihanas   si  ling prihinoya.
        AGTFOC PST-eat-1s fruit-PAT REL on   table-LOC
    'I ate the fruit that was on the table.

Ang no narāra (1), ang       (1) means that I ate the fruit
makonday nihanas luga ya     while I was lying on the table
ang manga sitang-məhemāy     myself, while (2) can only mean
prihinoya -- nārya ang ming  that the fruit lay on the
narāra-nama (2), ang         table. The relative clause
məhemayo nihan prihinoya.    clarifies that.
Ang taboyisayo marasbihengon
adanyaley.

Ang gahāy nelara adanyareng. I hope that helps.

Ban-vā                       Regards
Krisyān                      Carsten

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