LL-L "Grammar" 2002.06.09 (05) [E]

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From: Holger Weigelt <platt at HOLGER-WEIGELT.DE>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2002.06.07 (07) [E/LS]

>From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Grammar
>
>Holger:
>
>> In EFLS we often find auxiliary-verbs like "stón" (to stand) or "gón" >
(to
>> go) with an infinitive:
>> "wat sta:jst du: dor tau blaubekken ?" (why do you stand gaping ?)
>> theoretically this could occur with "daun" (to do), too but thinking it
>> over I can't find any example.
>
>This seems to be the construction in Northeastern Low Saxon (Low German)
>I had described earlier.  Do you think so?
>
>> Further about grammatical uses of 'to do', I should add that in her
>> dictionary of the Northeastern Low Saxon (Low German) dialects (of
>> Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania) Renate Herrmann-Winter lists one use
>> that I think is disappearing in other dialects (if it used to be more
>> widely spread).  _Doon_ ~ _daun_ 'to do' is used with the infinitive
>> form of the main verb preceded by _to_ ~ _tau_ ([to.U] ~ [teoU] ~ [ta.U]
>> ~ [teaU]) 'to' to express extended action, apparently often in the
>> context of disapproval; e.g., ... (Dutch-based spelling in parentheses)
>> ...
>>
>> Wat deist du hier tau sitten?
>> (Wat daaist dí±ªí°¨ier taau zitn?)
>> "Wat dost thou here to sit?"
>> What do you keep sitting around here for?
>>
>> Wat sall dat Tí²²í³¨s noch rí±·í´¡uliggen daun?
>> (Wat zal dat tuugs noch rumtaaulign daaun?)
>> "What shall that/the stuff still around-to-lie do?")
>> What's that stuff supposed to keep lying around for?
>>
>> Is there anything similar in other language varieties?
>
>Would this work in your Eastern Friesland variety?

Hello Ron !

>*Wat da:jst du: hi:r tau sitten? = Is possible but sounds strange. Would
be used joking or in ironical speech.

Let me quote from my own posting:
>In EFLS we often find auxiliary-verbs like "stón" (to stand) or "gón"
>(to go) with an infinitive:
>"wat sta:jst du: dor tau blaubekken ?" (why do you stand gaping ?)
(!)>theoretically this could occur with "daun" (to do),too but thinking
it
>over I can't find any example.(!)

>*Wat sal dä© budel noch rí±·í´¡uliggen daun? = impossible !

However I'll think more about this because there is an idea coming up
that
long time ago I have heard a somewhat similar use of "daun" (or "we:sen"
=
to be) in context with a continued situation (like in the above
sentence).
If I can remember and reconstruct what it was I'll send a further
message.
An other way to mark a continued situation or action in EFLS is "we:sen"
(to be) or else + an 't (at).
"Wat büst du: dor an 't luren ?" (what do you expect to be happening ?;
what are you waiting for ?; what do you spy for ?).
"Säi bünt an 't e:ten" (They are eating).

Regards,
Holger

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