Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Triqui topics and the reversed copula construction

Another environment for the ro' topic marker in Copala Triqui is what I'm calling the reversed copula construction.


Regular copulas have the normal order

 Predicate copula Subject

 as in examples like the following:




The reversed construction instead has the order

  Subject copula Predicate


and the ro' topic marker often shows up on the subject here, as in the following examples:




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