Postby janKipo » Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:19 am
The vocative 'o' doesn't modify sentences but nouns (if "modify" is the right word) and tp doesn't allow sentences in noun slots. What might be possible in the latter case is collapsing the sentence into a noun phrase, like most of your samples there. Of course, the use of PP in NP is still open to question (but less so each day, it seems) and 'pu' doesn't function the way you suggest -- as far as anyone beside Sonja can tell. Perhaps you mean the "imperative" 'o', which replaces a subject (and 'li', but the subject is usually 'sina') to make a request or goes before the whole sentence converting a statement into a wish or an exhortation.
Why "fast bid" or the like? Why not "flightless bird" first off and then mess around with sorting off penguins and ostriches (and rheas and moas, just in case).? Oh, right, saying "flightless" takes more space than its worth.