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deeply embedded VSO nightmare

From:William Annis <annis@...>
Date:Friday, October 19, 2001, 18:37
Oy.

So, Vaior is a VSO language.  This is fine and dandy most of the time,
but while writing the primer -- I actually have a very enthusiastic
friend learning the language, and he keeps pushing me on the primer --
I regularly discover just how superficial my previous language
creations were.

Anyway, to my recent horror I have discovered that due to how Vaior
word order works -- VSO, Noun - Modifier, Adj - Modifier -- that
gigantic ambiguities develop when using participles and relative
clauses.

This is fine:

    tuar-o   va tath-an   daip-oth-an        fid-

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Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>