Syntactic variation in the history of Norwegian and the decline of XV word order

Diachronica

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 105-141

  Sundquist, John D ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Foreign Languages ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Case morphology; Diachronic syntax; Head Complement order; Information structure; Language contact; Middle Norwegian; Syntactic change; Syntactic variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746145247     PISSN: 01764225     EISSN: 15699714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/dia.23.1.06sun     Document Type: Review

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