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Re: V2 languages

From:Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...>
Date:Saturday, May 29, 1999, 9:50
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Raymond A. Brown wrote:

> Both Breton & Welsh BTW can also front, i.e. focus, the verb. They do this > by having the verbnoun (roughly 'infinitive') first and having the verb "to > do" as the finite verb in seconf position.
My Welsh needs a good airing, but I seem to remember that it's straight OSV: ennillodd Dafydd y goron won Dafydd the crown "Dafydd won the crown" If you want to front something else than the verb (i.e. use it as focus), *then* you need something to resume it, such as the relarive pronoun: Dafydd a ennillodd y goron Dafydd REL won the crown "It was Dafydd who won the crown" I don't remember how to say "It was the crown that Dafydd won", alas. Irina Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastinay. irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/index.html (English) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/backpage.html (Nederlands)