Re: THEORY: Verb-Medial Languages, Case-Marking and Agreement
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 28, 2007, 7:03 |
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On 8/27/07, Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> wrote:
> 1% of the world's languages are OVS; if the "establish roles as early as
> possible" idea is correct, the object (rather than the subject) should be case-
> marked and the verb should agree with the subject (rather than with the
> object). Is that what happens in those languages?
I wonder whether Klingon is relevant, since it's a constructed
language rather than one that "just growed" (like Topsy). (Its verbs
agree with both subject and object, and there is no case-marking, at
least not for subjects or objects; things such as -vaD for beneficiary
are probably more similar to postpositions than case markers.)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>