Extending Hawkins’ comparative typology: Case, word order, and verb agreement in the Germanic languages
In a well-known book, Hawkins (1986), expanding on an original idea by Sapir (1921), attributes a number of typological differences between German and English to the fact that German uses morphological means (i.e. case) to distinguish grammatical relations, whereas English makes use of a strict-SVO...
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2007-04-01
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Schriftenreihe: | Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics |
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Online Zugang: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/93 |