Re: adjectival vs. adverbial prepositional phrases
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 14, 2002, 2:13 |
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 11:04:29 -0400, "Nathaniel G. Lew"
<natlew@...> wrote:
>Lajezxnasx emug ogecUsyk. = I read the book (that was) in the house.
>Lajezxnasx emug gycus. = I read the book (while I was) in the house.
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>Has anyone else addressed this problem in their projects? What solutions
>you have come up with.
>
>- Nathaniel Lew
Jarda uses the conjunction "zei" ("while") to mark prepositional phrases as
adverbial, so the second example would be "I read the book while in the
house". The example I actually use on the web page is "I come from Alabama
with a banjo on my knee":
sam zira Elabema zei lena gjeinga dhlizei skou zi'ei.
come I-ERG Alabama-ABS while having banjo supported-by knee I-GEN
In these cases, the conjunction loses the meaning "while", and only serves
to mark the prepositional phrase as being used adverbially.
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