Re: CONLANG: Interrogative mood and German subj.

["Herbert Oppolzer" <e8701678@STUDENT.TUWIEN.AC.AT>]

> 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
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