Sunday, March 4, 2012

Preverbal adverbs in Triqui

In previous posts here and here, I talked about the adverbs that show up immediately after the verb in Copala Triqui.  I've recently been looking at a few that are in the class of immediately preverbal adverbs.  One such adverb is yo'o or 'o which means 'continuously' (it is homophonous with the numeral 'one').

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Another adverb in this group is ve'é 'well', as in the following example:

     
Hollenbach on p. 253 of her sketch also has examples of the adverbs nanj 'thus' and two intensives uxrá and tiquij (both meaning 'a lot, very much') in the same preverbal position. 

I don't have examples in my data of tiquij in my corpus.  I do have many examples of uxrá, but most are postverbal instead of preverbal.




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