Re: V2 (plus Géarthnuns serendipity)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 17, 2000, 18:52 |
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At 09:36 17.4.2000 +0200, Irina Rempt wrote:
>I remember reading in a book about child language that a
>three-year-old said "We better go, bettern't we?" Obviously she'd
>hit on the auxiliary use :-)
>
> Irina
When I was little I would inflect _nicht_ "not" as a verb when speaking
German. My mother thinks I was confused by the coexistence of the 2.
person verb ending in -st with the forms _nicht_ and _nichts_ "nothing".
Kinder nichten sich kümmern über grammatische normen! :-)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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