Re: Kernewek

Joe sikyal:

> Hooray! My cornish course came in the post today.
>
> Not any orthography I recognise though :-)
> Somewhere between Kemmyn and Unified.
>
> But one interesting thing, it's an OVS language.  IE.
>
> Joseph ov vy
> Joseph am I
I'm not sure this counts as OVS.  In a stative verb like this, you really
only have one argument, and he's simply being named twice.  Whichever one
you put first--what does it matter?

Now, if they use OVS for everyday transitive sentences, then I'll be
impressed.


Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu

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