Re: Poetic sentence structure?
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 5, 2002, 8:01 |
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From: "Padraic Brown" <agricola@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Poetic sentence structure?
> Am 04.04.02, Joe yscrifef:
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> > Do any of your conlangs have a poetic/classical sentence structure, as
in
> > Zitwbata:
> >
> > Verb The Subject Prep Dative
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> VSO? I take it Zitwaba has a "regular" sentencee order that is
> different?
Not as such...the fact is that Accusatives are avoided in Poetry, hwereas
they're quite normal in prose.