Re: NATLANG: Dutch (jara: Has anyone made a real conlang?)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 24, 2003, 13:21 |
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En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen :
>Both are verb-final. The difference appears when there are more verbs than
>one.
>In German, the verb that changes when you put the sentence in the past tense
>(how do you call that? In Dutch it is "persoonsvorm") comes last, while in
>Dutch the action that it is all about comes last.
What I mean is that in Dutch, sentences like: "Ik zou graag willen dat je
met me meegaat naar Parijs" (probably not exactly correct, but I've heard
enough sentences of the same style to know that at least the order is
allowed), where a complement appears *after* a verb in a normally
verb-final sentence are possible and even normal (maybe not in writing, but
I hear them everyday from Dutch speakers and nobody seems to find that
incorrect), while German is stricter on this. And I prefer Dutch in this
case :) .
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
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