Observations on the loss of Verb Second in the history of English
Year: 2002
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: As often observed in the literature (cf. e.g. van Kemenade 1987, Stockwell 1984), Old English (OE) has word order patterns which are reminiscent of the Verb Second (V2) phenomenon found in the modern Germanic languages. In particular, fronting of some element to clause-
Source: Linguistik aktuell
DOI: 10.1075/la.53.15hae
Author: Eric Haeberli
Institution: University of Reading
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1526685769