Re: Standard Average European
| From: | David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 27, 2008, 21:22 |
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CHRISTOPHE!!! YOU'RE BACK!!!
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male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a."�"No eternal reward
will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."��-Jim
Morrison��http://dedalvs.free.fr/��On Apr 27, 2008, at 2∞07 PM,
Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets wrote:��> Selon Campbell Nilsen :�>> I
think that French word order works like this:�>> If the object is a regular
noun, then there is SVO word order.�>> If it's a pronoun, Latin word order
comes in, and you have SOV.�>>�>�> Hey, I'm French. I don't think you can
teach me French word order.�>�> Moreover, what you wrote is only true of
Written French. Spoken�> French doesn't have object pronouns (they are
personal affixes,�> which are used when the object is definite, whether it's
expressed�> or not. Indefinite objects don't have verbal agreement). And
word�> order is topic-comment, regardless of the function of the
topic.�>�> e.g.: /sga'la ZlE'vy i'jER/: It's that guy that I saw
yesterday�> /ga/: guy�> /s- -'la/: that�> /Z/: personal prefix, first
person singular subject�> /l/: personal prefix, third person singular
object�> /E/: conjugated form, third person singular, marks past when
used�> with a past participle (identical to, and derived from, the
present�> tense of /a'vwaR/: to have)�> /vy/: past participle of /'vwaR/:
to see�> /i'jER/: yesterday�>�> Written French for this sentence, without
changing the vocabulary,�> would be:�> J'ai vu ce gars-là hier.�> Or, to
emphasise the object:�> C'est ce gars-là que j'ai vu hier.�>�> The
similarity is clear, but the Spoken French is still quite�> different.�>
--�> Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets.�>�>
http://christophoronomicon.blogspot.com�>
http://www.christophoronomicon.nl�>�> You need a straight mind to invent a
twisted conlang.�
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