Re: CHAT: Re : Re: Tlvn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 15/09/99 15:31:08  , John Cowan a =E9crit :

> > "mon p=E8re, les coyotes, il les tue".
> =20
>  Looks like a good SOV sentence to me, with subject and object agreement
>  prefixes on the verb, making it /iletye/.
well yeah, when you topicize both S and O in a SVO language
deprived of case and clitics, it's fairly difficult to do otherwise.

you could also say no problem :

mon p=E8re, il l'a tu=E9, le coyote.
my father, he her killed, the coyote.

le coyote, il l'a tu=E9, mon p=E8re.
the coyote, he her killed, my father
etc.

or else :

moi, mon p=E8re, hier soir, le coyote, il courrait,
me, my father, yesternight, the coyote, she was running,

et ben, il l'a tu=E9.
then (usual resumptive tag), he killed her.

moi, ce vin, l=E0, mon p=E8re, il m'en a donn=E9 une caisse.
me, this wine, there, my father, he to-me of-it gave 6 bottles.
etc.

that's very usual and common colloquial french.

mathias