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???