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- Title
Verb-third in Otfrid’s Evangelienbuch.
- Authors
Somers, Katerina
- Abstract
This article investigates the status of so-called verb-final declaratives in Otfrid’s <italic>Evangelienbuch</italic>, with a focus on whether clauses in which there is no apparent subordinator and the finite verb occurs later than the expected verb-first or verb-second position can be treated as verb-third (V3) clauses, as they are defined for Old High German in works such as <xref>Axel (2007)</xref> and <xref>Tomaselli (1995)</xref>. Drawing on a set of 746 clauses, I argue that there is no evidence that the finite verbs in these clauses have undergone verb movement, as is claimed in the aforementioned works, nor are the asyndetic verb-late clauses with a verb in surface third position consistent with the patterns identified in the generative literature for the V3 type.
- Subjects
VERBS; CLAUSES (Grammar); SENTENCES (Grammar); WORD order (Grammar); OLD High German language
- Publication
NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution, 2018, Vol 71, Issue 1, p56
- ISSN
0108-8416
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/nowele.00004.som