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- Title
Zur Entwicklung von Verbzweit im Fragesatz. Die Evidenz im Althochdeutschen.
- Authors
Petrova, Svetlana; Solf, Michael
- Abstract
The paper explores the syntax of direct questions in Old High German (OHG) with particular reference to the placement of the finite verb and the interrogative element. It evaluates the complete OHG corpus and analyses the word order patterns taking into account the relevant loan-syntactic or metrical factors. The study shows that there is secure evidence allowing to retrace the emergence of V1 and V2 as the core patterns in alternative and constituent questions in modern German. In addition, the relation between the establishment of the V2-pattern in interrogatives and the consolidation of the V2-rule in main declarative clauses is discussed.
- Subjects
GERMAN language; OLD High German language; VERBS; INTERROGATIVE (Grammar); CLAUSES (Grammar); WORD order (Grammar); LINGUISTIC analysis; RHETORICAL questions; MODERN languages; SYNTAX (Grammar)
- Publication
Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 2009, Vol 131, Issue 1, p6
- ISSN
0005-8076
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/bgsl.2009.003