Some notes on word order and interpretation in Dutch and Finnish

Dutch is typically known to allow scrambling. Finnish on the other hand has a flexible word order. Even though the two languages differ in many aspects and Finnish does not have scrambling in the sense of an alternation between an adverb and an object, we suggest that the relation between word order...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Eefje Boef, Lena dal Pozzo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2012-05-01
Series:Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics
Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/2287