[Ads-l] Scandinavian topicalization is very flexible

Chris Waigl chris at LASCRIBE.NET
Mon Dec 16 04:38:57 UTC 2019


On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 7:36 PM Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:

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> Er ist sich nicht sicher, ob sie die Hintertür offen gelassen haben. -->
> Die Hintertür ist er sich nicht sicher, ob sie [sie??] aufgelassen haben.
>

I keep going back and forth on the acceptability of the one on the right,
so it'll have to be borderline. It's probably significant that I
inadvertently the more sloppy aufgelassen instead of the a little bit less
informal offen gelassen.

C

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