Verb Movement in Old and Middle English : Dialect Variation andLanguage Contact
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A Mathematical Model of the Loss of Verb-Second in Middle English
Lightfoot (1999) proposes the following explanation for the loss of the verb-second rule in Middle English: There were two regional dialects of Middle English, a northern dialect influenced by Old Norse with a verbsecond rule, and a southern dialect with a slightly different word order. Children acquire the verb-second rule based on hearing some critical fraction of cue sentences requiring such...
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