THEORY: Re : THEORY: questions

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 23/08/99 13:30:47  , vous avez =E9crit :

> 3. I have a class of words that are mostly adverbs in my mind, but
>  don't behave like those. They come at the end of sentences and
>  I thought 'I think those are discourse markers as we were talking
>  about in Conlang months ago!' but I'm not sure. What do you think
>  of this? Look at _tadh_:
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>          Tegem  tadh farfpainet.
>          run.1s TADH NEG.reach.1s
>          'I run, but I can't reach (it).'
>  *or*    'I run, however I can't reach (it).'
>  *or*    'Not mattering that I run, I can't reach (it).'
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>  Is it a conjunction, or an adverb? And what do I do with this?:
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i guess you're the only one to know that ;-)

i mean, an adverb qualifies the verb, that is, it is a verb
whose subject is the main verb, or an adjective whose
head is that main verb

while the cunjunction
con-joins two clauses, that is, it is a verb
whose subject is the main main clause,
or an adjective whose head is that main clause.
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and the second clause is its object.

so what do you feel _tadh_ is ? ;-)
to know that, just topicalize the sentence.

>          Tegem, farfpainet tadh.
>          'I run -- I can't reach (it), though.'
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>  I think *this* _tadh_ is a discourse marker, since it can't be a
>  conjunction, and it doesn't behave like an adverb (which always goes
>  before the verb -- God forbid it shifts to final position, since it
>  would destroy my grammatical structures!).
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>  I'll probably have more questions later -- please bear with me. :-(
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and bear with my stupid post.
but i really feel things are like that.=20

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>  --Pablo Flores
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