Re: ? how would you classify this language ?
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 17, 2004, 6:25 |
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On Thursday, September 16, 2004, at 01:27 , Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:
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>> Classical Latin was basically SVO, but varied considerably, usually
>> because of topic fronting and shifting focus to the end.
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> It was? I thought it was basically SOV? The example sentences in my Latin
> mini-grammar are; _puer puellam amat_.
OOPS!! Lapsus manu:s - I thought I'd typed SOV :=(
Latin was basically a Subject-Object-Verb lang - but I got the
topicalization & focusing correct ;)
Ray
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