A competitive mechanism selecting verb-second versus verb-final word order in causative and argumentative clauses of spoken Dutch: A corpus-linguistic study
In Dutch and German, the canonical order of subject, object(s) and finite verb is ‘verb-second’ (V2) in main but ‘verb-final’ (VF) in subordinate clauses. This occasionally leads to the production of noncanonical word orders. Familiar examples are causative and argumentative clauses introduced by a subordinating conjunction (Du. omdat, Ger. weil ‘because’): the omdat/weil-V2 phenomenon. Such clauses may also be introduced by coordinating conjunctions (Du. want, Ger. denn), which license V2 exclusively. However, want/denn-VF structures are unknown. We present the results of a corpus study on th... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26646602 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-3FD6-8 |