Re: SVO vs SOV and A lot of other questions

En réponse à Akhilesh Pillalamarri :


>Do any languages switch between the SVO and SOV in different cases, and is 
>that valid. For example, my language {Aryezi} has an SVO structure, except 
>when usuing pronouns, when it becomes an SOV.
>Ex) Se sanos gaoñ (I saw a cow)
>       Se ganya sanos (I saw him) which can also work inversley
>                             as Gan mêz sanos (he saw me)
That's exactly what my native language, French, and most (all?) Romance 
languages do. So yes, it is valid. After all, if English can go from SVO to 
VSO in questions, why wouldn't you be able to do anything else?

>
>There is also another problem in my language. I'm wondering what it is 
>called when a verb from changes from something doing the action to the 
>action being done to it, for example : I kill/I am being killed. I simply 
>solved this by doing this : Se hash (I kill)/ Se hashya (I am being killed).
Passive. You may want to read a simple grammar of English to learn the 
basic terms. There must be a lot around, including on the web :) .

>Also, from the verb "to like" I derived 2 adjectives, liked and likable. 
>Is there such a major difference in these two, that it is reconmendable to 
>make two adjective forms for all my words, one of them expressing "able?"
Well, the difference is pretty strong to me: likable means "can be liked", 
i.e. it doesn't say anything about whether the person is actually liked or 
not. "Liked", on the other hand, makes it clear that the person is 
*actually* liked.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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