Re: Sketch of Germanech 4/4: Syntax

aniye Jörg Rhiemeier:

> Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
>
> > En réponse à Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg.rhiemeier@...>:
> >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > _Il hom il can ne mordev, mas is mordev so catz._
> > > `The dog did not bite the man, but it bit his cat.'
> > >
> >
> > 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.
<snips>

But but but...what about Dutch!?!

"gelezen heeft Anna het boek niet"
"read had Anna the book not"
I mean, there's no case marking, but is still works...
or...is this totally different?

Elliott

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