LL-L "Syntax" 2004.04.23 (03) [E/LS]

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From: Jan Strunk <strunkjan at hotmail.com>
Subject: Semantics

Leive Lüe,

what do the Low Saxon speakers among you think about the following examples:

1) een Manns Dochter
Is this a possible phrase in your dialect and can it mean:
 a) the daughter of one specific man
 b) the daughter of any man in general

2) ne Manns Dochter
Is this this a possible phrase in your dialect and what would it mean?
 a) the daughter of one specific man
 b) the daughter of any man in general

In my corpus I have found an interesting example from Plautdietsch:
daut Jeistes Jesats --> the law of the spirit

I would analyze this as a compound noun, i.e. Jeistes Jesats is one word.
To test this, it would be interesting to know whether any of the following
would
be possible phrases in Plautdietsch:

1. daut fauste Jeistes Jesats
2. daut Jeistes fauste Jesats
3. daut Jeistes faustet Jesats

Völen Dank! Un kumpelmente!

Jan Strunk
jstrunk at stanford.edu

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