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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1. Verfasser: Gunther De Vogelaer
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2007-04-01
Schriftenreihe:Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics
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