Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Tristan McLeay <kesuari@Y...> wrote:
 > Danny Wier wrote:
 >
 > >More than one-third voted for VSO? DAMN THOSE TECHIANS!! I mean, it does
 > >seem like a logical word order, with the verb first.

I missed the poll, but I would have voted VSO too.



 > (BTW: How is having the verb first particularly 'logical'? I can
 > understand why someone might say SVO (or ever OVS) was logical, but I
 > have trouble with understand any logicalness in VSO (or OSV ).

If a SVO language has the (A->B) picture in mind, then
VSO would be f(x,y).  The verb is the carrier of the
action, and has some noun phrases as arguments.



-- Christian Thalmann