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<font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">From: </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"Obiter Dictum" <<a href="mailto:obiterdictum@mail.ru">obiterdictum@mail.ru</a>></span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><br>
Subject: </font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">LL-L "Grammar" 2012.03.01 (04) [EN]</span><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><span></span><br><br></font><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<big>Hello Pat: <br><br>Thanks a ton! The nicest piece of research I have seen in years!<br><br></big>
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<div><em><font size="-0">When
I first saw this, I scrambled to my linguistic dictionaries and a
couple of other books but couldn't find anything. I even went to
notebooks on the history of French syntax where Martin Harris discussed
Germanic sentence structure but found nothing.</font></em></div>
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<div><em><font size="-0">But
I had just started a book called The Shape of English by Roger Lass and
idly turned to the back of the book and my eye lit upon the following
section heading: "Loss of the 'Sentence-Brace' and I thought, "Hmmmmmm"
Here, I believe, is at least part of what you are looking for. I have to
idea how to get this to you other than to type it out. </font></em></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><font size="3">Hmmm, indeed! Who would think the gen would come from the other side of the line (of development). <br>
<br>(Still,
it would be great if some of the aficionados of Dutch and other
non-High-German languages and dialects would contribute relevant parts
of the respective languages' history.) </font><br><br>
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<div><em><font size="-0">p. 327</font></em></div>
<div><em><font size="-0">(iii) Loss of the 'Sentence-Brace'</font></em></div>
<div><em><font size="-0">The
sentence-brace (G Satzklammer [parenthetical sentence]) is an old West
Germanic construction which involves the splitting, under certain
conditions, of an auxiliary from a main verb. In simple intransitive
clauses, the normal order of WGmc (and NGmc for that matter) is:
Subject + Auxiliary + Infinitive/Participle:</font></em></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><font size="3">Right. This covers the most essential part. Thanks again, Pat. <br></font><br>
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<div><em><font size="-0">This
doesn't get to all your questions, Vlad, and there were no
bibliographical references in these two passages, but this may give a
starting point for further investigation to your most interesting
questions.</font></em></div>
<div><em><font size="-0">Pat Barrett</font></em></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><font size="3">Exactly,
Pat. Thanks again. This far, you findings demonstrate
that Satzklammer used to be the common WGerm feature, rather than
borrowed from (or styled after, as) High German. <br><br>To make sure
-- Again, what about the other Continental Lowland languages
(except Dutch, Frisian, Afrikaans and Yiddish): Do they
have Satzklammer? Ron? You know everything man :)<br><br>Thanks in advance and regards --<br>Vlad Lee</font></div><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><br>
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