Re: NATLANG: Dutch (jara: Has anyone made a real conlang?)

>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 :) .
For Hoch Deutsch, yes, but not necessarily for Platz Deutsch. During travels
in Germany, I've found that, in some locals, the complement is used before
the verb.


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