Contrast and word order: A case study on the history of Portuguese
Several studies have observed that older Romance languages had more frequent object-verb order than their modern counterparts. This article explores the idea that contrast is crucial to understand the shift to verb-object order, as part of a more encompassing notion of boundedness, which has been fr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-09-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/897 |