Re: "Free" word order (was Re: Greek definite article (was Re: Addendum: a holy spirit))

Hi!

Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> writes:
> Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
> > In Russian I read that
> > reordering is interesting.  I think I once read a sentence similar
> > to:
> >
> >    Ja    tybja   znaju  shto ljubju.
> >    I-NOM you-ACC know-1 that love-1
> >
> > Maybe someone can verify that this is right.  If so, I find the shift
> > of 'tybja' from the subordinary clause quite remarkable.
>
> No, this is clearly ungrammatical.
Aha!  Pity I don't find the source to mark it one negative
trustworthiness point. :-) I only know it was in a paper I once read
for my subsid computational linguistics (now 'language technology').

> I have never heard a part of subordinate clause shift to the main
> clause.
Well, subject raising is quite common: 'I want you to buy a pizza',
for example.  I think the above sentence occured in the context of
object raising as an example for such raising.  Seemingly, the point
of the authors cannot be stressed with that sentence then. :-)

**Henrik

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