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• scheme: <subject> <predicate> <object-direct> <object-indirect>.
• example: De volf giv en sten to de fogel.
• references: cha07

In Idiom Neutral, dative objects are allowed to appear without the preposition to if they immediately precede direct objects. This is mostly expected when the dative is a pronoun. In terms of FS, this would yield: De volf giv de fogel en sten. Whether FS should copy this rule is an open question.

• scheme: <correl.adverb> <subject> <predicate> <dir.object> <indir.object>.
• example: Van de volf giv en sten to de fogel.

• as a relative clause?

• scheme: <predicate> <subject> <object-direct> <object-indirect>?
• example: Giv de volf en sten to de fogel?

• scheme: vat don <subject> <object-direct> <object-indirect>?
• example: Vat don de volf med en sten to de fogel?

• scheme: vat/vem <predicate> <object-direct> <object-indirect>?
• example: Vat giv en sten to de fogel?

• scheme: <subject> <predicate> vat/vem <object-indirect>?
• example: De volf giv vat to de fogel?

• scheme: vat/vem <subject> <predicate> <object-indirect>?
• example: Vat de volf giv to de fogel?

• canonical
  • scheme: <subject> <predicate> <object-direct> <preposition> vat/vem?
  • example: De volf giv en sten to vat?
• alternative
  • scheme: <preposition> vat/vem <predicate> <subject> <object-direct>?
  • example: To vat giv de volf en sten?

• scheme: <correl.adverb> <predicate> <subject> <dir.object> <indir.object>?
• example: Van giv de volf en sten to de fogel?

• scheme: <predicate> <object-direct> <object-indirect>!
• example: Giv en sten to de fogel!

Should FS include V2? The system described by David Parke in his Frenkisch grammar might be suitable. The advantages are familiarity and normality for all Germanic speakers except the Anglophones, but the disadvantages are extra complexity that makes FS harder and weirder for outsiders, and also the presence of ambiguity in certain places.