> He could have added that in Welsh focused elements are fronted.
> Prynodd Huw gar ddoe.
> (bought Hugh car yesterday).
> English (cleft): It was Hugh who bought a car yesterday.
> Welsh: Huw (a) brynodd gar ddoe. [The (a) is normally
> omitted in spoken Welsh]
> English (cleft): It was a car (that) Hugh bought yesterday.
> Welsh: Car (a) brynodd Huw ddoe.
> English (cleft): It was yesterday that Hugh bought a car.
> Welsh: Ddoe (y) prynodd Huw gar. [The (y) is normally
> omitted in spoken Welsh]
> Welsh: Prynu gar ddoe (a) wnaeth Huw.
> (Buy car yesterday did Hugh).
>
> (The Welsh examples have the added interest of initial consonant mutation
um, if I might ask, how/where did it mutate? as far as I can see,
|prynodd| & |brynodd| became |prynu|...but wouldn't that be a suffix or
affix to the opening word?
apologies if I'm misunderstanding what you mean by 'initial'.