Publications

Publication details [#3270]

Filppula, Markku. 1982. VSO and SVO languages in contact: Sentence-thematic peculiarities. Papers from the Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics 6 : 50–59.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language contact | theme1 vs. rheme | word order

Language as a subject

English | Irish

Annotation

On the language contact between Irish and English (having different word order patterns and different thematic systems) in Ireland, and an attempt to explain 'Irish' English on this basis.