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Poetic sentence structure?

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Thursday, April 4, 2002, 8:22
Do any of your conlangs have a poetic/classical sentence structure, as in
Zitwbata:

Verb The Subject Prep Dative

Nipe l'aSwzud g'upo
/nipe l?aSyzUd g?Up@u/
begin.PST the Earth.NOM.s in fire.DAT.pl
began the earth in fire
(The Earth Began in Fire)

for some reason, accusatives are considered ugly, and are used as little as
possible.

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