Re: Terminilogy-help needed

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:36:20 +0100, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-
conlang@...> wrote:

>There's a new, unfinished page about Taruven up at
>http://taliesin.nvg.org/taruven/frontwords.html
>I made it as a direct result of a question I received during the
>current relay, once again proving how useful relays are :)
I looked at it; it looks interesting.

>The page concerns the word class/part of speech that I call
>"frontwords": a closed class of uninflectable words that go at
>the beginning/front of a clause/sentence. Unfortunately I have
>been asked about what a "backword" would be (Taruven certainly
>doesn't have any although "tal", the end-of-relative-sentence
>marker, comes close). Therefore, I'm looking for a better term.
I can't think of one; those words don't seem to have anything in common,
really.
But what's wrong with "frontwords" that isn't already wrong with "prepositions"?
For that matter "verbs" just, etymologically, meant "words".

>There is a second word class of particles in Taruven, which I
>call S-words for (sentence words); they can go (just about)
>anywhere in a sentence or function as a sentence, so far I have
>S-words meaning "always", "never", "thanks", "maybe", "indeed",
>"you bet" and several swear-words. I'm looking for a better word
>for these too.
Most of these look like "sentential adverbs".  Some of them look
like "interjections".
If you don't want them to be a subclass of "adverbs", you might call
them "sentence modifiers" or something like that.

>t.
I'll be interested in whatever decision you make.