> Den 15. nov. 2008 kl. 17.53 skreiv Jörg Rhiemeier:
>
> > In a LIFO language like Fith (
http://www.langmaker.com/fith.htm ),
> > a simple clause looks indeed quite much like one on an SOV language,
> > but that is only a superficial resemblance because the language is
> > processed in a way completely different from human languages.
>
> Not completely, I'd say. In a SOV language there's also some
> stacking. You need to stack both arguments, including attributes,
> before you 'process' them with the verb.
>
> > The Fith grammar allows for really bizarre manipulations of word
> > order which are indeed at least very hard to follow for humans.
>
> Well, so does German, for example. German legal or technical text can
> be really hard to figure out sometimes. Sentences often end with two
> verbs belonging to different clauses, and I think I have seen three.
Does anyone ever use those registers of German in real-time conversation,
however?
--
Andreas Johansson