Re: Human Song
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 13:32 |
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Quoting Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>:
> As to why I keep a strict word order despite a subject
> marker: it is an aesthetic issue.
Reasonable. But there are languages that do that anyways.
Turkish, for example, has lots of case markers, and yet
it has a very rigid SOV word order.
> And for more complicated grammar:
> "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him
> drink."
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> 2nd pers affix + "able" + "lead" + present tense affix
Is this really second person? The English original "you"
is a generic, more like "one". (It's okay if it is.)
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Thomas Wier <trwier@...> <http://home.uchicago.edu/~trwier>
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Dept. of Linguistics mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..."
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