Re: Sketch of Germanech 4/4: Syntax
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 22:24 |
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 01:29:02 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:
[snip interesting examples]
>Very interesting that Dutch allows less here. Are the above sentences
>acceptable in Dutch then?
At a glance, I would suppose that Dutch shows more resistance to putting
the object before the subject, perhaps because of the deeper erosion of
inflection in nouns.
But then, it would be interesting to compare (East) Scandinavian langs
(Danish, Swedish); IIRC they allow a lot of inversions of that kind,
having no Acc/Nom oposition either. (But some examples in the books
I read could be dated).
Basilius
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