The Verbal Complex in Continental West Germanic

Abstract

There are ten parts of speech, and they are all troublesome. An average sentence, in a German newspaper, is a sublime and impressive curiosity; it occupies a quarter of a column; it contains all the ten parts of speech-not in regular order, but mixed; it is built mainly of compound words constructed by the writer on the spot, and not to be found in any dictionary- six or seven words compacted into one, without joint or seam- that is, without hyphens, it treats of fourteen or fifteen different subjects, each enclosed in a parenthesis of its own, with here and there extra parentheses which reenclose three or four of the minor parentheses, making pens within pens: finally, all the parentheses, one of which is placed in the first line of the majestic sentence and the other in the middle of the last line of it- after which comes the VERB, and you find out for the first time what the man has been talking about; and after the verb- merely by way of ornament, as far as I can make out,- the writer shovels in ‘haben sind gewesen gehabt haben

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