Re: Sketch of Germanech 4/4: Syntax

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Steve Kramer wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> > En réponse à Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg.rhiemeier@...>:
> >
> > > >
> > > > No V2 requirements like in German or Dutch? Too bad, it would have
> > > been
> > > > quite a nice feature :))) .
> > >
> > > You mean something like German "Den Hund biss der Mann nicht"?
> > > German can do that because it has distinct nominative and accusative
> > > articles in the masculine.  There is no such distinction in Germanech
> > > (except in 1st and 2nd person pronouns), hence there can't be both SVO
> > > and OVS.
>
> The novice strikes again...what is meant by "V2" here?  And would
> something like this be possible with Simafira (which is rather strictly
> VOS and essentially caseless)?
Basically, it means that the verb lives exclusively in the second
position. If you move something to before the verb, whatever would
normally be before the verb has to go somewhere else.

Tristan

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