In the right mood, in the right place

Autor: Coniglio, Marco, De Bastiani, Chiara, Hinterhölzl, Roland, Weskott, Thomas
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
DOI: 10.18148/hs/2021.v5i1-13.43
Popis: While mood alternations in older Germanic languages are indicators of the (in)dependent status of the clause, verb placement is often considered as the reflex of information structure. In modern Germanic languages, the situation has changed: verb placement (and not mood alternation) reflects the different clausal status. This paper reports on a first attempt at an empirical investigation of the different stages of Old English and Old High German in this diachronic process.
Journal of Historical Syntax, Vol 5 No 1-13 (2021): Proceedings of the 20th Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference
Databáze: OpenAIRE