Postverbal subjects in Old English and Old French

Both Old English and Old French are commonly described as V2 languages. We investigate the position of the postverbal subject based on a corpus of medieval texts with respect to syntax and information structure. Our main findings are that information structure plays a more important role in Old Engl...

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Main Authors: Christine Salvesen, Kristin Bech
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo 2014-07-01
Series:Oslo Studies in Language
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/725