Re: V2 languages
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 29, 1999, 5:08 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> 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.
But the pronoun "I" also denotes subjective case. A sentence *"Him me
know" is completely ungrammatical.
> And, of course, in questions object is regularly fronted, "Who did you
> see?"
Right, but I was talking about regular, noninterrogatory formations.
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