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forget about the vocabulary for a second. french, unlike italian, spanish, portuguese, has germanic syntax structure too.
by yawboakye 3y ago
forget about the vocabulary for a second. french, unlike italian, spanish, portuguese, has germanic syntax structure too.
- samus 3y agoFrench syntax structure is mostly in line with the other romance languages, with the very notable exception of not being pro-drop. Edit: Vocabulary matters though because certain words are more likely to be replaced by loan words than others. More importantly, they allow linking with a language's close relatives (most importantly the other languages d'oïl), which might be more conservative, and with its historical forms across time. Said differently: languages without apparent similarity to other languages, no close existing relatives, and no written records to trace their development are isolates by definition.