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Re: [Ladekwa] Comments and questions

In a message dated 10/11/2005 6:54:57 AM Central Standard Time, sts@hidden.email writes:


-- Yes, I'm used to the SVO-paradigma. I would say "SPO"-paradigma, though. "P" stands here for "predicate". But I disagree, that in Ladekwa there is only one paradigma. Verbs have an PSO paradigma. Case tags have an SPO paradigma. So, for having only one paradigma, say, the PSO one, I would suppose to say "Zawtwa fawma dweti giku to fa" = P(Zawtwa) S(P(fawma) S(dweti giku to)) O(fa). If the paradigma were SPO strictly, I'd expect "Dweti giku to fawma zawtwa fa".


Stefo,
The arguments of the verb follow the verb.  The arguments of the case tag follow the case tag.  The arguments of open nouns and open adjectives follow the open nouns and open adjectives.  V, S, O don't always apply, but the order is always the same.  (I changed P to V because O is part of P.)

stevo