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Re: LIFO languages (was Re: "Theory informs practice" - OK?)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, November 15, 2008, 20:57
Quoting Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>:

> 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