Re: Degrees of volition in active languages (was Re:Chevraqis:asketch)

Irina Rempt wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > One could imagine a situation in
> > the future where those have become obligatory prefixes, so that even
> > when word order is normal it would be required, like "(Moi) je la
> > déteste Marie"
>
> Something like that already exists in Romanian:
>
>   l-am v@zut pe el
>   him-have seen OBJ him
>   "I have seen him"
>
> This is the emphatic form; without emphasis it's simply "l-am v@zut".
Wait -- does that mean that Romanian crossreferences both the object
and the subject on the verb?  Or does the unemphasized form just leave
the object NP out, left to be assumed by the listener?

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