Re: feedback: VSO syntax
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 16, 2004, 0:32 |
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En réponse à J Y S Czhang :
> Is the following syntax workable (naturalistic) _and_ unusual * ? (Does
>it make sense? ;)
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>* (I like the idea of the {Demonstrative + Adj. + Number + Classifier}
>ordering violating the usual "universal")
What universal? That numbers should preceed adjectives? Because the rest
seems quite usual order to me. As for this "number before adjective"
universal, I don't know how strong it is, but there's no reason not to be
able to break it.
> In another words - simply, the verb phrase has modifiers on both sides
>but the noun phrases have right-branching modifiers.
In a VSO syntax, I'd find that no problem at all. Hey, V2 syntax allows for
stranger word orders than that :)) .
Christophe Grandsire.
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