Inverse voice
| From: | Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 21, 2006, 20:44 |
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:00:57 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
wrote:
[snip]
>That makes sense. I'll adopt that (although Kijeb is and
>remains verb final).
AIUI (IIUC) most switch-reference systems are verb-final, yet I intend my
conlang to be verb-initial and verb-second.
>[snip]
>According to Blake it is reasonable. Subjects are likely
>to be animate actors.
Ah, ha.
BTW I forgot now where I intended to insert this, but;
not all Hierarchical alignment languages have Inverse Voice systems;
and not all languages with Inverse Voice systems have Obviation.
eldin
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