Re: adj
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 10, 2000, 18:25 |
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* morg0072@flinders.edu.au <morg0072@...> [001003 13:53]:
> Using zeq (to go/travel) instead of ? (to run), the sentence examples
> are:
gav /gAv/ = dog
vaì /vAi/ = run
xô /xu:/ = fast, quick
ï- /i/ = emphasis
I don't have enough data (yet, nor a degree in pragmatics) and
thus don't know which of the below possibilities is the most
popular, but I do know there are dialectal differences.
> Roniu kwnt ma*d wc zeq The dog runs quickly
> /ronoU kunt mad uS ze:R/
gav xôvaì
xôvaì gav
xô gavvaì
gavvaì xô
gav xô vaì
gav vaì xô
Other possible meanings:
The dog is running quickly
The quickly running dog
> Roniu kwnt wcll ykk The dog is fast
> /ronoU kunt uSl: ix/
gav xô
> Roniu wc kwnt zeq The fast dog runs (as opposed to some other dog)
> /ronoU uS kunt ze:R/
ïxô gav vaì
ïxôgav vaì
vaì ïxôgav
> Roniu kwnt wc zeq The fast dog runs ('fast' is purely descriptive)
> /ronoU kunt uS ze:R/
xô gav vaì
vaì xô gav
xôgav vaì
vaì xôgav
vaì gav xô
xôgavvaì
The rule is: the stative (aka. adjective/adverb) hooks up to
the nearest word, if between two it is the following word that
acts as head. Furthermore, when following the head it must agree
in case (unless it acts as a predicate), but since the case of
(most) subjects is unmarked, the only thing disambiguating here
is word order.
t.