Re: Syntactic Differentiation of Adverbial vs. Adjectival Adpositions

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Logan Kearsley <chronosurfer@...> wrote:
> 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.
Check Konya and Ilomi.