Re: Colloquial German, experiencers and the construct state

Quoting Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>:

> Hello,
>
> Since Tarsyanian is a mainly head-marking language, it uses
> the construct state instead of the genitive. (Colloquial)
> German (Henrik has mentioned this more than once IIRC),
> although mainly dependend-marking, also has this feature:
>
> In colloquial German,
>
>   1) dem     Mann sein Haus
>      the.DAT man  his  house
>      "to the man his house"
>
> is one of two common variants used instead of the standard
>
>   2) das     Haus  des     Mannes
>      the.NOM house the.GEN man.GEN
>      "the house the man's"
>
> The other variant would be
>
>   3) das     Haus  von dem     Mann
>      the.NOM house of  the.DAT man
>      "the house of/from the man"
>
> which is IMO actually more grammatical than (1), but this
> is not my point.
Tangentially, in German class they told us, in effect, to use the genitive as
much as possible in writing and as little as possible in speech.

                                      Andreas