Are there V2 relative clauses in German?

Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 97-141

  Gärtner, Hans Martin ^a  

^a ZAS/Phonetik   (Germany)

Author keywords

assertion; DRT; indefinites; parataxis; relative clauses; verb second

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748962065     PISSN: 13834924     EISSN: 15728552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011432819119     Document Type: Article

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