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| Feb 14, 2018 at 1:25 | comment | added | Atamiri | @IXBlackWolfXI Replace "can stand" with "must stand". A more precise description would be that German is SIOV (using X' symbols) in matrix clauses. Embedded clauses would be SOVI though there are exceptions. Nevertheless in standard typological terminology V stands for the finite verb (non-finite verbs correspond the NPs in many languages anyway and diachronically/functionally they're often nominal) so describing German as V2 makes sense (for matrix clauses) if one is familiar with the conventional terminology. | |
| Feb 13, 2018 at 5:06 | comment | added | user19661 | German word order is complicated. A basic sentence without auxiliary verbs is v2, but if there's IS an auxiliary, then the main verb is moved to the end and only the FIRST auxiliary can stand in the second position. Multiple verbs can end up at the end of a sentence this way. In dependent clauses however, the order is always SOV. German kind of defies a specific classification. | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 16:15 | comment | added | brass tacks | German is considered to have SOV as the "basic" clause order, with V2 being a less basic order that occurs in specific types of clauses (I forget the details, but basically finite clauses). | |
| Feb 11, 2018 at 12:18 | history | answered | Atamiri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |