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- Title
Latin influence on German word order?
- Authors
Hock, Hans Henrich
- Abstract
Behaghel's claim that verb finality in German dependent clauses (DCs) reflects Latin influence (1892, 1932) has been revived by Chirita (1997, 2003). According to Chirita, DC word order remains variable up to Early New High German, while in Latin, verb-finality is more frequent in DCs than main clauses (MCs); hence, she claims, German verb finality reflects Latin influence. This papers shows that the arguments for Latin influence are problematic and that the Modern German word order difference between MCs and DCs can be explained as the ultimate outcome of developments that started in early North and West Germanic. In the conclusion I briefly discuss similar developments in Western Romance and their implications for European contact linguistics.
- Subjects
WORD order (Grammar); INFLUENCE
- Publication
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2019, Vol 33, Issue 1, p183
- ISSN
0774-5141
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/bjl.00027.hoc