Timeline for Exception to the word order S-V-O
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| Nov 12, 2021 at 16:15 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | There are no objects here, but complements. The usual order S - Vcop - Comp is inverted in these examples to Comp - Vcop - S. Subject-complement inversion. | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 23:52 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @ColinFine Sorry, what I meant is that we wouldn't consider it fronting but inversion. | |
| S Dec 6, 2015 at 23:05 | history | suggested | macraf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 6, 2015 at 22:29 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Dec 6, 2015 at 19:03 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 6, 2015 at 18:45 | answer | added | Araucaria - Him | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 18:01 | comment | added | Colin Fine | @Auracaria: no it wouldn't. I said the subject moves to affter the verb. | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 18:01 | history | edited | Araucaria - Him | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 6, 2015 at 17:55 | comment | added | Anonym | This is a vestige of V2 (verb-second) order; both English and German come from a common ancestor which used it. | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 17:38 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @ColinFine Not really, that would give you: "Behind him Sam was" and so forth. This is subject-dependent inversion. Notice how the Subject has moved to the end of the sentence. | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 16:55 | comment | added | Pablo Marambio | What is the question? | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 16:50 | answer | added | John Lawler | timeline score: 18 | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 16:22 | comment | added | Colin Fine | These are fully grammatical examples of fronting. When an argument other than the subject is fronted (for emphasis, usually), it takes the place of the subject, which occurs after the verb. | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 16:21 | review | First posts | |||
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| Dec 6, 2015 at 16:19 | history | asked | user150383 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |