Sprachsbund was Re: Question

Consider the Hispanic Peninsular languages - they were in a Sprachsbund with
Arabic once.  It's more than likely they took some of their more endearing
complications from the Arabic of that period.  Perhaps your Reman is/could be
fitted into such a conculture?  Just a thought.

Welsey Parish

On Wednesday 17 April 2002 23:00, you wrote:
> En réponse à Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>:
> > I just checked some old work I'd done learning Arabic via the
> > Colloquial
> > Arabic threesome - Colloquial Arabic (Levantine), Colloquial Egyptian
> > Arabic
> > and Colloquial Gulf Arabic, and in Gulf Arabic the only time you get a
> > SVO is
> > in a subordinate sentence, eg, "gilt lih ina Jaasim  raaH il-bayt" - "I
> > told
> > him that Jaasim had gone home."  The rest of the time it is straight
> > VSO.
>
> Yep, the famous particle inna (in Classical Arabic), which, like its
> "sisters" (Arabic terminology) must mandatorily be followed by a noun,
> making sentences that follow it mandatorily SVO. But not only that, but in
> Classical Arabic where you still mark case, the noun following inna, though
> a subject, must be in direct case, or accusative :)) . My Reman has a
> similar structure for its subclauses too: since in Reman the distinction
> between prepositions and conjunctions has disappeared, conjunctions must be
> followed by a mandatory noun, which, when it's a personal pronoun, must be
> in indirect object form. And think that Reman is a Romance language :))) .
>
> Christophe.
>
> http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
>
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