Re: V2 languages

Tom Wier wrote:
> "*Him* I know"
>
> where pronouns indicate case.
Not necessarily, one can also say "That much I know" or "John I know"
(well, that sounds a bit awkward, but is acceptable, in my dialect at
any rate), it's the fact that SOV is illegal that disambiguates.  Only
two word orders are legal in Modern English, SVO and OSV, so if you have
noun-noun-verb, only OSV is a possible interpretation, never SOV.

And, of course, in questions object is regularly fronted, "Who did you
see?"

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