Re: Positioning for emphasis

In a message dated 9/13/2007 3:04:11 PM Central Daylight Time,
dedalvs@GMAIL.COM writes:


> I would genuinely be surprised to find a natlang that didn't
> allow any reordering at all.  It doesn't seem like a natural feature
> for human language simply because real humans don't tolerate
> such rigidness when it comes to expression.  Certainly a conlang
> could do this, but I don't know of any that do off the top of my
> head.
>
> -David
>
Toki Pona has a very rigid word order.  It's SVO, with modifiers following
modified.

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