Re: Language Change
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 7, 2000, 12:31 |
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At 15:41 +0100 6.1.2000, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
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>Danish is still firmly V2 (except in yes-no questions, which are
>verb-initial). Something has to go in front of V, and that something
>is very often the subject, so the unmarked order is actually SVO ---
>but if something like an adverb is fronted, you get VSO. AFAIK, it's
>similar but not quite the same in Swedish and Norwegian.
Nothing significantly different in Swedish (or Norwegian, or Icelandic)
that I can think of.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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