Re: Positioning for emphasis

Kazakh is SOV (unless you're writing poetry, when it
may bend for the sake of rhythm).  It uses an emphatic
particle positioned after the main verb (ghoi/qoi)

It has several of these particles, actually: a
question-marker (ma/me/ba/be/pa/pe) and one expressing
less-direct evidentiality as well (eken).

Geoff

--- caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
wrote:

> English is, I believe, basically an SVO language,
> but this order can be
> rearranged for emphasis or effect.
>
> Are there any natlangs whose order, whatever it may
> be, can never be
> rearranged?  If so, how do they indicate emphasis?
>
> Likewise for any conlangs with which you may be
> familiar.
>
> Charlie
>

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