Resilient grammars: On VO/OV in Germanic linguistic islands in Northern Italy
In this work we consider some residual cases of OV order in Cimbrian and show that this is due to the interaction between verb movement, a language specific property, and the syntax of bare quantifiers. This has consequences on a general theory on the change of the basic word order, since it shows t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Oslo
2021-01-01
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| Series: | Oslo Studies in Language |
| Online Access: | https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/8507 |