Re: A wacky language

Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:
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>>En réponse à Andreas Johansson :
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>>>Your adpositions should be impositions (ie, go in the middle of the word).
>>>Plural should be indicated by reduplication of the preceding word, and
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>>verbs
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>>>should be discontinuous (ie, consist of 2+ separate bits that go in
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>>different
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>>>places in the sentence).
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>>Well, German and Dutch already have that, and Maggel is planned to have
>>that too, so I'm not sure it's such a wacky feature (Maggel is a bit
>>wackier than Dutch and German as it separately conjugates both bits of the
>>verb :)) ).
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>Well, if the German and Dutch auxilliary plus infinite main verb constructions
>count as discontinuous verbs, then this is found in every Germanic language.
>Seem to recall that Classical Latin also allows it. Or do you refer to
>particle verbs? That's also, I'm pretty sure, found throughout the Germanic
>family.
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I assume he means verbs like 'aufstehen', etc.  Are those particle verbs?

I don't think English has them, but I could be wrong.

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