Re: Sketch of Germanech 4/4: Syntax
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <irina@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 6, 2001, 8:03 |
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On Thursday 06 December 2001 08:49, Christophe wrote:
> Wrong. The example I gave: "het boek heeft Anna niet gelezen" is
> perfectly correct Dutch (in fact, we have quite often sentences of
> this kind in the texts we learn for the Dutch class), completely
> unambiguous, and yet the object preceeds the subject.
Indeed. "Het boek heeft Anna niet gelezen; de krant wel."
Irina
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