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On 10/18/05, Rex May <rmay@hidden.email> wrote: > On Oct 18, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Jim Henry wrote: > > which the listener needs to be able to match > > up unambiguously with the permissible V/S/O word > > orders. He can do that if you allow only > > > > SVO > > VSO > > OSV > > Yes, that's my intention. I need to draw a schematic ........ > > And then your three permitted word orders > > would correspond to topicalizing any one of > > the three main sentence constituents. That ... > And I'm thinking a pause would come instinctively anyway, to be > represented by a comma. > > jin, xlaq pa tsanku. > > pa tsanku jin, xlaq. If the only VNN pattern allowed is VSO, shouldn't this be pa tsanku, xlaq jin. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/review/log.htm http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/esp.htm ...Mind the gmail Reply-to: field