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- Title
Word order patterns in the Old High German right periphery and their Indo-European origins.
- Authors
Sapp, Christopher D.
- Abstract
I investigate deviations from the OV order in the OHG texts Isidor and Tatian. Abstracting away from cases of verb-second, post-verbal constituents tend to be heavy or focused. OHG thus has a head-final VP with extraposition of NPs and PPs. Likewise, verbal complexes with the order finite before non-finite are derived by Verb (Projection) Raising. Ancient Indo-European languages are also underlyingly OV with evidence for extraposition. This suggests that OHG inherited the head-final VP, extraposition and even V(P)R from Proto-Indo- European. Because extraposition and V(P)R are at the periphery of grammar, the resulting surface orders have not resulted in parametric change to the VP from Proto-Indo-European to present-day German.
- Subjects
WORD order (Grammar); OLD High German language; VERBS; LINGUISTIC typology; MODERN languages
- Publication
Diachronica, 2016, Vol 33, Issue 3, p367
- ISSN
0176-4225
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/dia.33.3.03sap