Verb-second word order after German weil ‘because’: Psycholinguistic theory from corpus-linguistic data

In present-day spoken German, subordinate clauses introduced by the connector 'weil '‘because’ occur with two orders of subject, finite verb, and object(s). In addition to 'weil 'clauses with verb-final word order (“VF”; standard in subordinate clauses) one often hears 'weil...

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Main Authors: Gerard Kempen, Karin Harbusch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2016-04-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:http://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/46