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Publication details [#14342]
Reershemius, Gertrud. 2001. Word order in Yiddish narrative discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (9) : 1467–1484. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
An analyses of finite verb placement and topicalization in Yiddish narratives. Although German and Yiddish are verb-second languages, both of these languages allow structures in which the finite verb occupies the first position of the utterance. It is argued that such structures pattern function of speaker-listener interactions.