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Names and anadewism?

From:Christopher Wright <faceloran@...>
Date:Sunday, May 25, 2003, 18:38
I just found something out about my mainlang, Sturnan. I already knew
about pronoun dropping, but now, when you drop a pronoun and the object of
the verb cannot use that pronoun, the object moves from SVO to OV. (This
is almost always the case with 1st or 2nd person sentences, especially if
the object's an adjective.) For example:

Tun isut vospe. == Vospe isut. (I'm not calling anyone a fool here; it
just came to mind.)
Im kardem kwen. == Kwen kardem. (I do, indeed, own a dog. He smells
terrible.)

Any ideas on what this would be called, and if it already exists elsewhere?

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Roger Mills <romilly@...>