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Re: OT: Star Trek (was RE: Star Trek)

From:Joseph Bridwell <darkmoonman@...>
Date:Friday, May 19, 2006, 14:52
> If we extended the description 'OVS language' to > include any language where the order OVS _may_ occur, > then we would almost certainly have a few thousand. > But this is not the normal, unmarked word order of those > languages.
True! Going back to what, IMO, was the actual question: neither the OVS word order nor the making of pronouns for tense and/or aspect fall outside the body of human language as a whole.