Re: V2 languages

In a message dated 5/28/99 9:35:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, fortytwo@UFL.EDU
writes:

<< 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?"
 >>

        In a sentence such as "John I know" wouldn't the use of "I" instead
of "me" be an example of a pronoun indicating case?

pacs precs
Joe Mondello