West Flemish V3 and the interaction of syntax and discourse

The empirical focus of this paper is what looks like a verb third (V3) pattern in West Flemish (WF) in which an adverbial modifier (typically a temporal or conditional adjunct) is followed by a non-inverted subject-initial verb second (V2) root clause. This pattern will be referred to as the non-inv...

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Published in:	The journal of comparative Germanic linguistics Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 1 - 56
Main Authors:	Haegeman, Liliane, Greco, Ciro
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer 01.04.2018 Springer Netherlands Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Adverbials Clauses Community property Community research Comparative Linguistics Derivation Derivation (Syntax) Discourse Dutch language Germanic Languages Hypotheses Language varieties Linguistics Morality Original Paper Pragmatics Predicate Sentence structure Social Sciences Syntactic structures Syntax Syntax discourse relationship Theoretical Linguistics Verbs Word order Typology of adverbial modifiers (central, peripheral) Subject-initial V2 Discourse syntax V2 Microvariation V3 West Flemish
ISSN:	1383-4924, 1572-8552
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