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Mike:->
The emphasis in the first is on the dog, while the emphasis on the latter is on the eating. (Is there a suffix that will explicitly change an adverb to a verb, or vice versa?) I don't see any particular advantage in having adverbs follow verbs, except to make Ceqli more like English--assuming that that would be an advantage. The trade-off would be the loss of a simple, uniform modifier-head principle that applies in every case. Ray:-> The last point seems good,....except, if you will have
a suffix to indicate an adverb then such a maked adverb would apply to
the verb regardless of its position, wouldn't it?
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