Re: Prefixes and typology

I may be wrong, but I think VOS languages are the most common of the OS
type (although still pretty rare). OVS and OSV are rarer...

>
> Oops! Well, there's one now (Minza). Although the most usual way of
> expressing "have" is with the locative case, Minza has a word "meri"
> which is used when "have" means "to be in possession of (at the
> moment)". But then, Minza is a VOS language, which is pretty weird to
> begin with.
>
>

Reply