Re: All agglutinative languages are SOV-ordered?
From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 02/14/05
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:57:06 GMT
aranders@insightbb.com wrote:
>
> Aslan Kral wrote:
> > Esperanto, Klingon are artificial languages designed by native SVO
> speakers.
> > So it comes as no surprise that they are SVO.
>
> It comes as something of a surprise to *me*. As someone who knows a
> smattering of Esperanto and speaks fluent Klingon, I must contradict
> you.
>
> While Dr. Zamehnof's native language might have influenced some of
> Esperanto's features, word order was not one of them. Esperanto uses
> case markings to make word order very flexible. One may say "Virino
> havas floron", or "Havas floron virino", or "Floron virino havas", or
> the other three permutations of word order, and all carry the
> grammatically correct and unambiguous meaning of "The woman has a
> flower".
If the six permutations don't convey differences in meaning (as they do,
for instance, in English), it's yet another way in which E-o is
unnatural.
-- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net
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