Talk:Time Manner Place
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[edit] German is not an SOV language.
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72.131.73.123 (talk) 05:07, 10 January 2008 (UTC)Richard O. 01/09/08
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German and Dutch are considered SVO in conventional typology and SOV in generative grammar. For example, in German, a basic sentence such as "Ich sage etwas über Karl" or, "I say something about Karl", is in SVO word order. When a conjuction like "dass", which corresponds to "that" in English, is used; the verb appears at the end of the sentence, rendering the word order SOV. A possible such sentence is "Ich sage, dass Karl einen Gürtel gekauft hat", or, translated into English word-for-word, "I say that Karl a belt bought has", hence, SOV word order. (emphasis mine)
- German is a V2 word order otherwise SOV language. --Puellanivis (talk) 08:01, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
212.42.169.50 (talk) 13:36, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Apologies if I have filled this page in wrong, I don't entirely understand the instructions for doing so. What I wanted to say is that Hammer's German Grammar and Usage (Second Edition) Chapter 18, section 1 together with p. 477 disputes that German is a time manner place language. It says that true adverbials typically come in the order time, place, manner in German sentences, and that the place element at the end (for example in the sentence ich fahhre heute mit dem Auto in Muenchen) is actually usually a complement to the verb, not an adverbial. However, it does acknowledge that many "handbooks" do say that it is a time manner place language.
212.42.169.50 (talk) 13:36, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
