How to turn German into Icelandic – and derive the OV–VO contrasts
Abstract Icelandic and German differ in the head-complement order (VO vs. OV), but their morpho-syntactic systems of verbal and nominal inflection are similar enough for factoring out the specific grammatical effects of the OV/VO-property. The analysis of a broad range of constructions (quirky subjects, expletive subjects, object shift, scrambling, particle constructions, V-clustering) provides the empirical basis for the following claim: the headedness difference (OV vs. VO) is the basic and crucial factor for the systematic differences between the respective grammars. As for the theoretic mo... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Reihe/Periodikum: | The journal of comparative Germanic linguistics |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Anmerkungen: | © Kluwer Academic Publishers 2005 |
ISSN: | 1383-4924 |
Weitere Identifikatoren: | doi: 10.1007/s10828-004-0293-0 |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/olc-benelux-2042971650 |
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Datenquelle: | Online Contents Benelux; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-004-0293-0
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