Is German discourse-configurational? Experimental evidence for a topic position

Frey (2000; 2004) assumes that German is discourse-configurational regarding aboutness topics, namely that there is a special syntactic position for topics within the German middle field, directly above the base position of sentence adverbials. In this paper we will present two acceptability judgmen...

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Main Authors: Melanie Störzer, Britta Stolterfoht
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-02-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/122