Re: Sketch of Germanech 4/4: Syntax

Hi!

laokou <laokou@...> writes:
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> From: "Henrik Theiling"
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> > (`weil''s order is currently unstable in Modern German)
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> That "weil" is unstable is an interesting new fact (perhaps by analogy with
> "denn" in meaning?).
Yeah, it started in my generation I think.  I consider it wrong and
shudder whenever someone uses it in main clause order (as a
coordination).  I think it was not triggered by analogy with `denn',
but by a tendency to add a pause after `weil' for further thinking,
adding the next clause with main clause order.  You'd write that with
a comma and some dots.

Then after a while people used that order even without the pause.
That's how I noticed the shift.

Still, as I said, main clause order after `weil' sounds ungrammatical
to me.

But hey, languages change.  E.g. the dative -m on adjectives seems to
slowly shifted to -n soon, too.  Not yet, but I've seen some mistakes
by L1 German speakers.

> so it's doubtful my Lnot1 German will ever be
> thus "polluted" ;-) ("weil" definitely triggers SOV for me).
Yeah!  Righty so!  I like that. :-)

> Rechtscheibreformen be damned!
True. :-) It was created by a bunch of people who found a bad
compromise.

> Vive le ess-tset!
Right! :-)

> Fraktur RULES, man!
Looks very nice, yes.  Especially for blackmailing. :-))))
Re-introduce the ending-s.  Well, I like old German scripts a lot
(S

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