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Re: me and my languages

From:Rik Roots <rikroots@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 12, 2001, 17:53
> Certainly, all languages have some restrictions on word order, even if it > is on the level of "keep words in the clause they belong in", eg. don't > move the object of a relative clause in front of the first word of the > main clause.
oops. Gevey is apparently happy to allow a relative clause to float anywhere within its host clause, and in particular it will go at the start of the sentence if it is being emphasised by the speaker. But, then, Gevey is wierd like that. Rik -- The Gevey language reference http://www.kalieda.org/gevey/index.html

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