Re: Viko Notes

Jim Grossmann wrote:
> 3.      "v" without "f"?   Well, there's no law against that.  It seems a bit
> odd, but I'll defer
> to linguists' opinions about whether it happens in any natural language.
Well, Rotokas has /p t k B */ and a velar sound, /G/, I think, but I
don't have the source with me.  So, there's /B/ without an /P/, so /v/
without /f/ seems reasonable.

> 2.      The pattern "A is a B" is rendered as "A va B vo kisi ta."
>
> You can't use this pattern if "vo" is a direct object marker.  To preserve
> the pattern, you could give "vo" two readings:  direct object marker OR
> predicate marker.  Alternatively, you could have a different marker for
> predicate nouns or pronouns.
Classical Arabic uses the accusative for the "object" of "to be".

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