Re: interesting english syntax

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@M...> wrote:

>Is Roger's example grammatical in German: "Kommt Heinrich, werden
wir
>die Begegnung beginnen"? (It sounds OK to me, but my last German
>class was very long ago.) Or is it grammatical in any other natlang?
If that example is grammatically correct in German I should think it
would have to be "Komme Heinrich, werden..."

From all the examples cited it seems as though that construction only
works when a time word is the subject: come spring, come the time
when, come next year, etc.

BTW, I almost always use that inverted word order in my everyday
speech instead of an "if" clause (Had I but known...), but then, I'm
rather old-fashioned in some ways.

Charlie
http://wiki.frath.net/user:caeruleancentaur

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