1 Verb - third in early West Germanic : a comparative perspective
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چکیده
In this paper I develop an analysis of the alternation between verb-third (V3) and verb-second (V2) in the older West Germanic languages in terms of information-structural considerations. I present the situation in Old English and Old High German as well as new data from Old Saxon, proposing on the basis of this data that there were (at least) two possible left-peripheral targets for verb-movement in Proto-West Germanic, Force and Fin, with information-structural considerations determining the surface constituent order of neutral declarative clauses. Strict V2, under this account, is a more recent development in Old Saxon and later Old High German. Konstanzer Online-Publikations-System (KOPS) URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-0-405473 Published in: Syntax over Time : Lexical, Morphological, and Information-Structural Interactions / Biberauer, Theresa; Walkden, George (ed.). Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015. (Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 15). pp. 236-248. ISBN 978-0-19-968792-3 https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199687923.003.0014
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