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u şepal
and bright
‘The flowers of the mountains have been burned, the young and bright narcissuses.’
5.4.1.3.7 Placement of prepositional phrases
Prepositional phrases also have more than one permissible position in a sentence.
According to my consultant, every position is viable for the locative prepositional phrase
li Dohukê , ‘in Dohuk,’ in (318).
(318) li Dohuk-ê min pertuk-ek kir-î
in Dohuk-OBL.F 1O book-INDF buy.PST.3SG
Min li Dohukê pertukek kirî.
Min pertukek li Dohukê kirî.
Min pertukek kirî li Dohukê.
‘I bought a book in Dohuk.’
The flexibility of the placement of prepositional phrases is yet another tool for the
poet, particularly for those who write in the Neo-classical style. What might be true for
adverbial clauses could also be true for prepositional phrases, that their placement in lines
of poetry could result from non-pragmatic decisions. While a particular location for a
prepositional phrase might result in some pragmatic effect―as opposed to it being placed
in its most common position―the effect may be acceptable to the author. Hence, the
motivation may be syntactic and any additional pragmatic effect satisfactory.
5.4.1.4 Constructional schemes
Turco (2000:9) writes, “Constructional schemes are strategies for constructing
sentences...ways in which words, phrases, clauses, and larger units are grammatically
balanced in sentences.” Parallelism, for example, is a syntactic arrangement that deeply
engages with reason. Adams (1997:108-9) writes, “The parallel syntax itself conveys the
meaning: these two (or more) thoughts are equal in importance.” With regard to
repetition, it is “one of the most basic forms of emotional emphasis” (Adams 1997:113).
In this section, I discuss some noteworthy constructional schemes in the corpus and their
possible pragmatic effects.