Did you say OSV? Was: Arawakan.

I think I just sent a blank letter to the list
by mistake... Forgive me.

I couldn't help but prick my ears up at this
bit of news.  Is Arawakan a natlang?  And
OSV?  I need to find out about this language,
since Teonaht, as many people know, is also
OSV.  I would be very curious to know what
other features this language exhibits.  I was
also under the impression that there were
several natlangs that had OSV, but all of them
from the same small language group in South
America.

Rob, could I see your "little grammar"?  Is it
on web?

Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net


----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Nierse <rnierse@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:38 AM
Subject: Arawakan


> > > what's arawakan grammar like
> > > btw?
> >
> > OSV (well, in a language of the family), it is the only natlang to do
> > so.
>
> I made a little grammar (phonology and morphology)
> on Surinam Arawak (Lokono). I think it is SVO
> ( I don't have the grammar here).
>
> Rob
>