Re: Sketch of Germanech 4/4: Syntax

Well, putting the past participle in front of the sentence is not Dutch in my
opinion (maybe in poetry, but not in ordinary life). The correct order should
be: "Anna heeft het boek niet gelezen". An example of the V2 requirement
wouldbe to make the sentence into:

"Het boek heeft Anna niet gelezen".

Right and it does prove the same basic point that I was making with my poetic
example (taken from a poetic book no less!)....case-marking doesn't need to be
present for the right interpretation to be worked out. :)

Elliott