Espen Klævik-Pettersen

List of John Benjamins publications for which Espen Klævik-Pettersen plays a role.

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Klævik-Pettersen, Espen 2019 What is Germanic and what is not about Old French V2A micro-perspective on Verb Second in Romance and Germanic, Meklenborg Salvesen, Christine (ed.), pp. 141–198 | Article
Old French is considered by many to have been a verb-second (V2) language. Furthermore, 13th century Old French featured a V2 system with strong restrictions on the prefield, meaning only a single constituent was generally accepted to the left of the finite verb. This bears a strong resemblance… read more