Received: from odin.diku.dk (daemon@odin.diku.dk [130.225.96.221]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id MAA26921 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 12:55:16 -0500 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by odin.diku.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA07342 for conlang-outgoing; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 12:36:07 -0500 Received: from stud1.tuwien.ac.at (stud1.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.35.37]) by odin.diku.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA07317 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 18:35:54 +0100 Received: from edvtsmc13.tuwien.ac.at by stud1.tuwien.ac.at (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA76899; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 18:35:51 +0100 Message-Id: <9511261735.AA76899@stud1.tuwien.ac.at> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Herbert Oppolzer" To: conlang@diku.dk Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 18:32:40 +0000 Subject: Re: CONLANG: Interrogative mood and German subj. Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Sender: owner-conlang@diku.dk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: "Herbert Oppolzer" Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Sun Nov 26 12:55:19 1995 X-From-Space-Address: owner-conlang@diku.dk > There are all sorts of wierd things used in colloquial German. Stuff > like "wenn er schlafen taete", though I may be misremembering that > particular example. at least for austrian, or viennese, i would explain this example as transformation of a ("correct") dialectal expression (which has a form of 'taete' instead of 'w"urde') into standard language, where it is incorrect. btw, the austrian/bavarian dialects have (preserved ?) a conditional form (schlafat = would sleep, slept), which does not exist in high german. Herbert Oppolzer http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e8701678 http://www.sphinx.co.at/staff/hoppol_g.htm