Word order in German: A corpus study

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 717-762

  Bader, Markus ^a   Häussler, Jana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constituent weight; Corpus; German; Information structure; Lexical semantic information; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149125594     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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