Re: Sketch of Germanech 4/4: Syntax
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Thursday, December 6, 2001, 1:56 |
Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> 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.
You could borrow the English method of using auxilaries, "The dog did
the man bite not", or something to that effect.
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