Objects and verbs in modern Icelandic and fifteenth-century English: A word order parallel and its causes

Lingua

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 237-265

  Van Der Wurff, W ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Generative historical syntax; Middle English; Modern Icelandic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043207882     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3841(99)00026-1     Document Type: Article

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