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Jutisk Syntax
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Word order, et cetera. Not all strictly syntax
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Menu 1. Basic Word Order 2. Compounding 3. Noun Phrase Order 4. Questions
[edit] [top]Basic Word Order

Jutisk maintains a form of the German V1 system. The verb with the person ending on it goes between the subject and the object, while all other parts of the verb, including adverbs go at the very end of the word. However, if the subject is a pronoun, the object moves to the other side of the verb, after the subject. Prepositional phrases can go anywhere, but most either go before or after the non-person-ending parts of the verb.
[edit] [top]Compounding

Jutisk, like German, can create very long compounds, but it does not always do that. As a rule, a compound has the noun it actually is before the modifying noun, but a noun phrase has them in the opposite order, and a space in between them. Almost all compounds have both nouns in the nominative case to start, with the exception of many surnames, where the second (modifying) noun takes the instrumental case. Some calques of loanwords from other languages also have the second noun in a different case. Compounds do not take a case ending on both nouns forming them, but noun phrases do. Noun-adjective compounds are also possible, and the adjective behaves like a modifying noun as shown above.
[edit] [top]Noun Phrase Order

Adjectives and numerals both precede nouns. Most adpositions also precede nouns. A relative clause comes after the noun, however. Genitive nouns may either come before or after the noun; traditionalists prefer after, but most speakers tend to use before. Many idioms always put the genitive after the noun.
[edit] [top]Questions

There are multiple different ways of asking a question in Jutisk. The commonest is to simply move the person-ending part of the verb to the start of the word, and put the rest of the verbal elements between the subject and the object.
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