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(222) ma min tu vîya-y-Ø-î bu milk u mal-î? (AN5:33)
INTRG 1O 2D love:PST-PRF-be:PST-3SG for land and belongings-OBL.M
‘Did I love you because of land and belongings (money)?’
5.4.1.1.4 Object-Subject-Verb
In a number of instances the object preceded the subject. In line 6 of Bila..Bila,
‘OK..OK,’ Sindî put the object, rundka, ‘tears,’ before the subject, ez, 1D.
(223) rundk-a ez lê di-werîn-im (BS3:6)
tear-OBL.PL 1D for.him IPFV-shed.PRS-1SG
‘I am shedding tears for him.’
In line 45 of Bîrewerîa Barzanî Yê Nemir, ‘Memories of Immortal Barzanî,’ shown in
(224), Sindî positioned the object, suz u peyman, ‘promises and pacts,’ before the
subject, em, 1OP. In this closing statement, Sindî is bringing to the forefront the Kurdish
response for all that Mustafa Barzanî has done for his people.
(224) suz u peyman em di-din te gel te (BS1:45)
Promise and pact 1DP IPFV-give.PRS-3PL 2O with you
da u ala we da 87
with and flag your with
‘We are giving you promises and pacts that we will be with you and your flag.’
In Bêla, ‘House,’ also by Sindî, the normal word order for line 11, shown in
(225), is me banê bêla gêra. However, Sindî chose to put the object, banê bêlayê, ‘roof of
the house,’ at the beginning of the sentence, before the subject me, 1OP. Bêla is a prose
poem and, as mentioned, it only has rhyme in the final four lines. Hence, Sindî’s reason
for using uncommon constituent order here is something other than rhyme.
(225) ban-ê bêla-yê me gêra-Ø u .. u gêra-Ø (BS6:11)
Roof-EZ.M house-SRM 1OP roll.PST-3SG and and roll.PST-3SG
‘We rolled and rolled the roof of the house.’
The consultant who provided me with the normal word order for this line did not
include the Specific Reference Marker (SRM)―yê on bêlayê. A thorough treatise on
87 My consultant noted that this da is unnecessary but by no means awkward. Sindî used the second da, a
postposition that is part of the circumposition for rhyming purposes.