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Re: deeply embedded VSO nightmare

From:laokou <laokou@...>
Date:Monday, October 22, 2001, 23:18
From: "laokou"

> I'm finding this in Géarthnuns. If any predicate gets too bogged down with > long relative clauses or participial phrases, the final verb (Géarthnuns
is
> SOV) gets booted up, and the copious clause follows.
> But: > > Sí lé chöi sasatsöit höi chí gdhalsív argnözélötöit tel, chöit >
^^^
> lé che véríthsek, gü söit lí sethet chí razhílsíb içte höiçíbrön sho, > ngamath. > I-nom past the woman-acc HÖI the corner-loc standing-acc see, who past the > wife-dat, THAT she-nom fut she- > ^^^ > acc the work-postpositonal after meet-discoursive SHO, tell > I saw the woman standing on the corner who told her wife that she would
meet
> her after work.
Actually, I should have qualified this. There are no hard and fast rules; it's speaker discretion. I would have no problem with "tel" at the end of the above sentence in written language or in a more formal spoken setting. For general conversation, though, that would be a bit much. Kou