Re: Circumfixes?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 7, 2001, 13:23 |
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En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> Ever read German? Tho' SVO in normal clauses, it's SOV in relative
> clauses,
> and those can get quite long.
>
By the way, even in Japanese you can get quite long sentences, and since in
Japanese subclauses have to precede the main clause, it's getting even more
complicated than in German. Still, they seem to have no problem to read their
newspapers (the numerous kanji are more a problem to them than their grammar :)
).
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr