[B-Greek] Fwd: PRWTOS and PRWTON (was Adverbs)
Oun Kwon
kwonbbl at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 19:05:09 EDT 2011
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Iver Larsen <iver_larsen at sil.org> wrote:
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>> 6) adverb modifying "on the table": why is the book not there?
>> "the man put the book first on the table" (and subsequently back on the
>> shelf)
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> Adverb PRWTON modifying "put". In Danish we would have to put "first" after "put" and before "the book". A contrast between table and shelf is pragmatic and may be shown by stress or word order.
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I believes, in English, the adverb 'first' here modifies 'on the table'.
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Oun Kwon
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