Re: Viva SOV! (was: Re: Circumfixes?)

Hi!

"Douglas Koller, Latin & French" <latinfrench@...> writes:
> Heinrik schrieb:
GRRRRRR!  Henrik. :-)

> >(This makes nice garden path sentences:
> >
> >     Er hat mir    die Karte versprochen (.) ... zu verstecken.
> >     he has me.DAT the ticket promised           to hide.
>
> I'm not sure what the exact meaning of the German is here (and what
> are garden path sentences again?). If it's: "He promised me that he
> would hide the ticket (...)". Then it would be:
Yes, exactly, it means that. :-)

Garden path sentences are those that mean something different until
you read the next word, i.e, you natually think into the wrong
direction until a word changes everything.  Then you have to
`back track'.  E.g. in English, you can wonderfully play with
a dropped `that':

    I see Peter(.) is sleeping.

And the like.

**Henrik

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