Re: V2 languages

Do V2 languages regularly front the object like that?
In other words, OVS?

        Cel il verinyn elry atwa
        "In the park did I walk"
        In the park PAST I walk.

Is Teonaht functioning like a V2 language when it does that?
Of course it doesn't consistently keep to this pattern.
And of course the first element is a tense particle, which
you could consider part of the verb if you stretched it.

Sally
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JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON wrote:
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>
> In V2 languages, the tensed verb follows the first *constituent* of
> the clause - i.e. where a constituent is a string of words which
> act together as a syntactic unit.  A constituent can be anything from
> a single word to a long chain of words, so the verb can be anything
> from the second to the last word in the clause, depending on the
> length of the first constituent, and on whether there's anything
> else in the clause.
>
> Examples (with first constituent in brackets):
>
>         [John] HAVE we seen
>         [The man] HAVE we seen
>         [The old man] HAVE we seen
>         [The old man with the dirty fingernails] HAVE we seen
>         [The old man with the dirty fingernails the colour of
>                 scotch tape] HAVE we seen
>         etc.
>
> Matt.