Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Word ordering

From:Peter Clark <peter-clark@...>
Date:Friday, August 23, 2002, 14:31
        Here's something I've been puzzling over for a while. Are there any languages
which have different word orders on a consistant basis for transitive and
intransitive verbs? Enamyn is currently APV / SV (although with a wide range
of permitted variations), but I would like to change it to APV / VS. I can
think of some marginal examples in English; for instance, "Here comes the
bus," but most intransitive English sentences are SV, rather than VS. So are
there any natlangs (or conlangs, for that matter) that have a significant
difference in order between transitive and intransitive sentences?
        :Peter