Re: lojban-list Digest V4 #255

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 12/7/2005 4:23:12 AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


> On the 9other hand, many European
> languages do have a common SOV pattern -- with
> pronoun objects for example.  


But the term SOV (and the five other permutations of S, V, and O) are the *basic* order.  The order with pronouns is secondary and does not count toward making the language SOV.  French, for instance, is SVO, despite the fact that object pronouns usually precede the verb.

stevo