Re: Poetic sentence structure?
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 5, 2002, 3:24 |
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Am 04.04.02, Joe yscrifef:
> Do any of your conlangs have a poetic/classical sentence structure, as in
> Zitwbata:
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> Verb The Subject Prep Dative
VSO? I take it Zitwaba has a "regular" sentencee order that is
different?
In Kerno, the so called "Old Standard" was SOV in declarative
sentences. Certain structures, like any use of the preposition
"do" or instrumental case structures changed the order to OVS.
The usual "Modern Standard" follows the ordinary spoken language,
whose order is VSO.
I don't have much in the way of information on poetry. One poetic
form contains lines of only nouns, the variations in case being
what makes it poetic (kind of like a rhyme scheme, but using
grammatical variation rather than sound similarity).
> (The Earth Began in Fire)
Espednasot la Terra in danne.
(had its head / the Earth / in fire)
Padraic.
--
Stean San Agnes an guella stean en Kernow.
Actually, I guess that should be:
l' ystans le San Agnes l' ystan il dackam le Kernow.
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