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Publication details [#8653]

Schutter, Georges De. 1985. Typological aspects of Dutch and German. Antwerp Papers in Linguistics 39 : 73–112.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language typology | word order

Language as a subject

Dutch | German

Annotation

An attempt to prove that word order in Dutch and German is essentially [X(SOV)Y], on the basis of primarily pragmatic arguments, and a plea for a greater concern with pragmatics in language typology in general.