[Corpora-List] max sentence legnths

[Stefan Frazier]

I realize this thread played out some time ago. But Dürrenmatt's "Der
Auftrag" with its 24 sentences in 133 pages certainly benefits from the way
German sentences may be constructed, in conventional grammatical form, in a
manner English would consider "comma splices." In other words, a full clause
may end, another clause may begin, a comma separates those two, the
narrative continues apace, the woman travels to an unnamed Arabic-speaking
country, she solves a murder case, the woman encounters deep philosophical
issues, one can see that in this way it is quite easy indeed to construct
long sentences, we should remember that there is a difference between
"grammatical" and what is considered "correct," it is late, I am going to
bed.


On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Cyril Belica <belica at ids-mannheim.de>
wrote:

> > Do any of those 24 sentences take advantage of the potential
> > of German syntax to postpone any verb more than one page later
> > than the subject?
> >
> > John Sowa
>
> I don't think so though I've never checked that out. But sure enough, it is
> a syntax-heavy diet of reading.
>
> Best,
> Cyril
>
>
>
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