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on 3/27/02 1:14 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > >>>> Now, about these moveable adverbs: >>>> >>>> I've always felt that some adverbs are clearly verb-modifiers. Go fast, >>>> sleep well, etc., but that many feel more like _sentence_ modifiers. >>>> I eat today, Clearly, the dog is asleep, etc. >>> >>> Reminds me of "Gladly, the cross-eyed bear." >>> >>> Do you see any difference between the two following sentences? >>> >>> "Clearly, the dog is asleep." >>> "The dog is clearly asleep." >> >> No. Hm. I think the difference I see is semantic. The dog eats fast, it >> tells how the dog eats. How the eating is done. The dog clearly eats >> doesn't tell us anything about the style of eating, but about the truth of >> the whole sentence. That's what I mean by sentence modifier, I guess. > > Yes, You're right. Those two sentences have the same meaning because > the adverb precedes the verb in each case. To modify the verb (in > English), the adverb would have to follow the verb, which doesn't make > sense with "clearly" in this example. So, in English, at least, the distinction is made, but not in any systematic way. Possibilities: A suffix of some sort. FroyX to kan pa ho poji. Or, adding nothing at all to the system, do this. Froyke to kan pa ho poji. Which is short for: Go froy ke to kan pa ho poji. Now, logically, it would have to come at the beginning of any sentence, because the 'ke' says that the phrase/sentence following is to be treated as a unit, usually the object of what precedes the 'ke.' That wd be the normal way. If you want to add an attitudinal as an afterthought, I suppose To kan pa ho poji, go froi. Giving the order of elements OSV, allowable in Ceqli. And I can see no sensible way to insert it in the middle, but who would need to? If it's an afterthought, it can go at the end. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/