Re: Poetic sentence structure?
| From: | Dan Jones <dan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 4, 2002, 10:31 |
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Joe escreva:
>Do any of your conlangs have a poetic/classical sentence structure, as in
>Zitwbata:
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>Verb The Subject Prep Dative
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>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)
Carashan (normally SVO) mimics its parent language Aredos (normally SOV)
for a more elevated style:
los moreus manjain los cêsos
the mice ate the cheeses
becomes
los moreus pellos cêsos manjain.
the mice the cheeses ate.
Note the addition of the preposition "pe" marking the object. In Aredos
this would have been done by the accusative case.
Dan
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semo la flamma, semo la casea
semo la tuta, semo la cambea
We are the spark, we are the flame
We are the people, we are the change
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