Philip Newton scripsit:
> Sounds like the way Klingon would do it... it seems to have rather
> clunky subordinate clauses (IIRC "I know that you spoke" comes out as
> something like "You spoke <subord> I know it".)
Well, the evidence is that English embedding descends from parataxis:
"I know that you spoke" was originally just "I know that. You spoke."
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