Re: Circumfixes?

In a message dated 6/6/01 8:02:02 AM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR writes:

<< Well, this is more a matter of style than of language in itself. Believe
me,

even French newspapers are difficult to understand, even though French is a
SVO

language with adjectives following their nouns. If I see a 40-word sentence, I

will probably have to read it twice or three times before I can understand
what

it means. Knowing the verb is usually far from enough :) . >>

    This reminded me of something...  In Spanish the word  order is SVO, and
sometimes SOV when you get object pronouns thrown in (and, then again,
sometimes not), but here's the one that makes me wonder: "Me gusta la radio".
 Here, the subject is the radio, and "I" is the object, so the order, then,
is OVS.  What's up with that?

-David

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