Re: What is an IE language (was: Re: Workshops Review from Yitzik the
| From: | Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 20, 2002, 8:02 |
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From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
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Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: What is an IE language (was: Re: Workshops Review from Yitzik
the
> > In questions, reordering the sentence is common. VSO becomes the
> > predominant word order, and when a question word is present it is
normally
> > always first, whatever its function in the sentence.
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> I think these things are universal in IE.
Maybe I'm mixed up here, but I seem to find that in Spanish, the word order
is the same for questions as for statements, and that intonation makes the
difference. As there are no tone marks in Spanish writing, all of the
questions are preceded with another question mark - which would make sense
if the language uses the same order and no grammatical/lexical variation for
questions. ¿This does make sense?
(And by the way, Spanish is definitely an IE language.)
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