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Re: Sketch of Germanech 4/4: Syntax

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, December 6, 2001, 7:41
En réponse à Elliott Lash <AL260@...>:

> > 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? >
Well, putting the past participle in front of the sentence is not Dutch in my opinion (maybe in poetry, but not in ordinary life). The correct order should be: "Anna heeft het boek niet gelezen". An example of the V2 requirement would be to make the sentence into: "Het boek heeft Anna niet gelezen". Though there is no case-marking, the semantics of the sentence make it unambiguous. That's why I proposed that Germanesh could also have a V2 requirement. Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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