Re: Strange voices

Christophe wrote:

> En réponse à Stone Gordonssen :
>
>
> >"The mat on-it-sleeps a cat" would make perfect sense to a speaker of
> >Hixkaryana (sp?) which is an OVS natlang. (Drat! I've already packed that
> >book.)
>
> An OVS natlang?!!! Unpack that book immediately!!!!! ;)))))
>
> Seriously, does anybody have any link on that?
>
No link, but the language is discussed in Comrie's "Language Universals and
Ling. Typology". It's a Carib lang., spoken in Venezuela IIRC, and it's my
impression other languages in the family may also be OVS