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Re: Names and anadewism?

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Sunday, May 25, 2003, 23:27
Christopher Wright wroght:
.... 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.)
This look interesting, but I don't quite follow it. Especially the "dog" sentence-- where does "smells terrible' come from? Could you give an interlinear???