Origins of verb-second in Old High German

Autor:	Katrin Axel-Tober
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Old High German History language Verb Linguistics language.human_language
Zdroj:	Oxford Scholarship
DOI:	10.1093/oso/9780198813545.003.0003
Popis:	This chapter investigates the characteristics of the left sentence periphery in Old High German. In the earlier OHG prose texts we still find some archaic characteristics of a non- or pre-verb-second grammar. These include residual and partly productive features of a non-conflated C-domain arguably inherited from Proto-Germanic or even Proto-Indo-European. On the other hand, there is ample evidence that the precursor of the so-called prefield position already existed in OHG and that it was already a target for both operator movement and Stylistic Fronting. All these phenomena shed interesting light on the question of which syntactic steps the language had to take in order consolidate its verb-second grammar.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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