Re: Sketch of Germanech 4/4: Syntax
| From: | Steve Kramer <scooter@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 6, 2001, 7:52 |
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg.rhiemeier@...>:
>
> > >
> > > 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.
The novice strikes again...what is meant by "V2" here? And would
something like this be possible with Simafira (which is rather strictly
VOS and essentially caseless)?
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