[Tlhingan-hol] Piraha

[SuStel]

On 11/3/2015 12:47 AM, Rohan Fenwick wrote:
> ghItlhpu' Quvar, jatlh:
>  > I'm not sure what the initial question was, but these examples do not
>  > show a real answer, in my opinion. All of the multiple adverbials are
>  > actually time stamps plus adverb, so not really "TWO" adverbs.
>
> jang SuStel, jatlh:
>  > Klingon doesn't have adverbs; it has {chuvmey}, a subset of which are
>  > "adverbials."
>
> I'm interested to know, apart from the terminology used in TKD, what is
> it about the class of words including {ghaytan}, {tugh}, and {SIbI'}
> that means they cannot or should not be equally well described with the
> name "adverbs"?

Well, for one thing, they can usually be used as standalone 
exclamations; e.g., {tugh} "hurry up!"

There are also some members of the category that would not seem to be 
adverbs, like {jay'}.

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