Re: Sketch of Germanech 4/4: Syntax
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 9:17 |
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En réponse à Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg.rhiemeier@...>:
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> Constituent order
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> The only legal alternative order is OSV, i.e. the object is placed in
> the front in order to emphasize it, though this is rarely used.
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> _Il hom il can ne mordev, mas is mordev so catz._
> `The dog did not bite the man, but it bit his cat.'
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No V2 requirements like in German or Dutch? Too bad, it would have been quite a
nice feature :))) .
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> The conjunction `that' (to use a clause as an object) is _que_.
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> _Laura dichez que Paul amarassez Marje._
> `Laura says that Paul loves Mary.'
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Here again, no V-final requirements on subordinate clauses? I would have been a
nice feature, and not implausible at all since Latin used to be verb-final too.
The influence of the Germanic substrate could have kept the verb in final
position in subclauses.
Christophe.
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