Observations on the loss of Verb Second in the history of English

Haeberli, Eric

doi:10.1075/la.53.15hae

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Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax: Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000)
Edited by C. Jan-Wouter Zwart and Werner Abraham
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 53] 2002
► pp. 245–272

Observations on the loss of Verb Second in the history of English

Eric Haeberli | University of Reading

Published online: 31 December 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.53.15hae

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