Hauptsätze mit Verbspäterstellung im Althochdeutschen: Bestand, Distribution, Interpretation
Svetlana Petrova
Abstract:This corpus study investigates well-known violations of the verb second constraint in Old High German main clauses. Starting from the observation that the attested orders are overwhelmingly ambiguous regarding the position of the verb and the preverbal constituents, the paper applies methods for identifying diagnostic datasets which can be clearly distinguished in terms of structure and use. Two types of diagnostic non-verb-second orders are tested, namely verb-final clauses in which no verb movement applies, … Show more
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