Re: Kernewek

Jesse Bangs a skrifas:

> I'm not sure this counts as OVS.  In a stative verb like this, you
really
> only have one argument, and he's simply being named twice.  Whichever
one
> you put first--what does it matter?
> Now, if they use OVS for everyday transitive sentences, then I'll be
> impressed.
It's possible, and done, but it's an emphatic word order. For example,
the most common way of saying "I read the book" would be "my a wrug
redya an lyver" (which itself emphasizes the subject: "[it is] I who
read the book", but it's still the most common way to say it). If you
want to emphasize that it's the book (and not the newspaper, magazine,
etc.) that you read, you can say "an lyver a wrug vy redya".

This word order is also quite common (more so than in Cornish) in
Breton, especially when using the verb "to do" as an auxiliary, e.g.
"Deskiñ Brezoneg a ran" ("I learn Breton", lit. "[it is the] learning
[of] Breton that I do").

Regards

Thomas

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