What is the proper way to describe Yoda's (From Star wars) speech problem?

This is quite obvious in that he doesn’t always even use what appears to be OSV. OVS is common, too, as in the above “Problem listening have you.”

And I think I got that from Bosstone’s analysis. :smack: That’ll teach me to respond before I’ve finished the thread.

Ah! Big T! Finally, yes! :smiley:

So many online references to Yoda’s speech being OSV… They could be blown away by a topic-comment analysis. The data falls into place.

"Speech problem Yoda has not.

Listening problem, you have."

Regarding German verbs at the end, I love Mark Twain’s quote: “Once the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you see of him until he emerges from the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
From A Connectivcut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, of all places, although I believe he uses it elsewhere, too.