Re: Save of the dative, the genitive's is already dead!

Jean-François Colson wrote:

> On Sunday, June 12, 2005 12:40 AM CEST, Carsten Becker wrote:
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>
>> Another question (my question) is, why the conjunction "weil"
>> ("because", also governing genitive case!) developed towards triggering
>> SVO in the following undoubtly subordinate clause, although the standard
>> word order in subordinate clauses is SOV.
>
>
> Perhaps because "weil" is a CO-ORDINATING conjunction like und, aber,
> oder,
> etc.
> In Dutch there're two words to translate "because": "want" and "omdat".
> "Want" is a co-ordinating conjunction ==> SVO
> whereas "omdat", which is a pronominal adverb, is used as a subordinating
> conjunction ==> SOV.
> Is there something similar in German?

German has about three words for 'because', AFAIK - 'da', 'denn', and
'weil' (and 'wegen', but that's more like 'à cause de') . 'denn'
normally governs SVO clauses, AFAIK, whereas 'da' and 'weil' govern SOV
clauses.