Borrowed word order in phrases

[Jan Terje Faarlund]

On a slightly different level: Scandinavian, being VO languages, have 
passive participles followed by an agent PP, as in English /The bill is 
passed by Parliament/. If a participle, as an adjective, is used to 
modify a noun it will precede the noun, still as in English, or follow 
the noun if it is followed by a PP: /A bill passed by Parliament/. 
However, in a certain bureaucratic style, the PP may precede the 
participle, which again precedes the noun: /En av Stortinget vedtatt 
lov/ 'a by Parliament passed bill'. This pattern is obviously borrowed 
from German (an OV language), and it occurs in writing only.

Best,
Jan Terje

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>      >
>      > Dear colleagues,
>      >
>      > I'm looking for examples of languages where certain (types of)
>     phrases
>      > present a different, borrowed word order when compared to a more
>      > common, inherited type. Well-known examples are, in English, legal
>      > terms in which the adjective follows the noun, preserving the
>     original
>      > Norman French order: "attorney general", "court martial", etc.
>      > (Jespersen 1912:87-88).
>      >
>      > Are you aware of similar examples from other languages? And of cases
>      > in which the borrowed order, originally limited to borrowed lexemes,
>      > ended up becoming the default usage?
>      >
>      > I would appreciate any insights and bibliographic references on
>     this topic.
>      >
>      > Obrigado,
>      >
>      > Eduardo
>      >
>      >
>      > --
>      > Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro, lingüista
>      > http://etnolinguistica.org/perfil:9
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