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L O W L A N D S - L - 02 February 2009 - Volume 05<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="hccdpe"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="hccdpe">LL-L "Syntax"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Beste
Lucas,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Referring
to a Norwegian genitive construction you wrote:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> To
what extent is found in the other Lowlands
(and Germanic) languages, and is there an origin that is generally agreed upon?
I don't think that I've seen it in Dutch, though I wouldn't be surprised
at all if it's found. </span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The same
construction is not only very common in Brabantish, it's rooted so deep that
while writing my thesis, I had no idea that to linguistic outsiders, my
promotor being one, they clearly stuck out. He was Flemish and would rather use
genitive -s or -van, instead of my -zijn/-haar. Some examples:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Flemish:
Luc's vader heeft ...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Brabantish:
Luc zijn vader heeft ...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">(both as
subject or not)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Similar for
feminine and neutral nouns (living being or not): 't School zijn dak is er af
gevlogen. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL">(B) De moeder haar kind was dood bij de geboorte. (B) Ik
heb het aan zijn zuster haar vriendin gegeven. (B) Ik moet nog mijn schoen zijn
zool repareren. (B)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="NL"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Kind
greetings,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">Luc
Hellinckx</span></p>
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