Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 12:58:26PM +0100, Joe wrote:
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> From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
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> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 12:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27
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> > Hmm, actually, that brings up an interesting question. In accusative
> > languages where sentence structure is subject + predicate, it seems that
> > the subject is most important, and so it appears first, followed by the
> > verb and object. So you get either SVO or SOV (i.e., predicate is either
> > VO or OV). But how would you explain other word orders like VSO? Does that
> > mean the sentence structure is verb + "predicate" instead of subject +
> > predicate?
>
> I'd call it verb+actors.  I don't know if that's right or common, but
> it's a reasonable guess.
That's interesting... that'd be very close to Ebisedian, in fact.
Ebisedian is basically verb+participants, although word order is free.


T

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