Re: Verb-initial languages

John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:

> Joe scripsit:
>
> > In Irish,  |tá| is the copula, and it goes first.
>
> My understanding is that the Irish copula is "is", and that "tá" rather
> asserts predication.
Indeed. And in addition, 'is' is the only verb where the word order mutates:
it becomes OVS rather than VSO.

K.

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