Re: CHAT: An introduction
From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
Date: | Sunday, June 8, 2003, 18:45 |
En réponse à Tristan McLeay :
>So it's essentially like saying 'me Iitdidn'twatch thefilm yesterday'
>(accounting for the fact that I can't do much inflexion to English's
>poor deprived article)?
Yep :) .
> That's funky! I like it! I'm sure I can work a
>like feature into either Modern Føtisk or Pidse... (BTW... if the
>important thing was the movie, could you say something like '[relevant
>third-person pronoun] j'l'ai pas r'gardé l'film hier'?)
No, just "l'film j'l'ai pas r'gardé hier". As I said, Spoken French is a
Topic-Comment language, not SVO. So arguments can freely move when
necessary, since they are marked in function by a prefix ("preposition")
and/or agreement in the verbal complex.
Christophe Grandsire.
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