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> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Yoon Ha Lee
> Sent: Sunday, 28 January, 2001 12:20 PM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> 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.
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