Re: CHAT: Re : Re: Tlvn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 18:00 |
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"From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html" wrote:
> that's very usual and common colloquial french.
Quite an intriguing change, really, from Latin which had subject
agreement, plus case, yielding free order, to earlier French with
neither (well, very little *phonetic* subject agreement), with little
freedom of order, to Colloquial French with subject-and-object
agreement, no case, but plenty of freedom of order
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