Re: topic/compliment & Sanskrit script

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:39:08PM -0600, Danny Wier wrote:
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> > Behalf Of Yoon Ha Lee
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> > Subject: Re: topic/compliment & Sanskrit script
>
> > I would tend to think of it that way, yes.  :-p  What Korean does using
> > the topic particle (there's that pesky term again), English speakers tend
> > to do by stressing the appropriate word (e.g. "*Mary* killed the wombat"
> > vs. "Mary *killed* the wombat" vs. "Mary killed the *wombat*").  Or at
> > least I do.  It may work differently in other languages, and I'm
> > certainly no expert.
>
> You could also say in English "it was Mary that killed the wombat" vs. "the
> wombat Mary killed".
>
> Russian does the opposite of Korean; the emphasized element goes last in the
> sentence.
What's Russian's usual word order? Is there a correspondence between (say)
VSO order and emphasized-last?

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo