Observations on the loss of Verb Second in the history of English

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Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Linguistics and language evolution Historical Linguistics and Language Studies

Abstract

As often observed in the literature (cf. e.g. van Kemenade 1987, Stockwell 1984), Old English (OE) has word order patterns which are reminiscent of the Verb Second (V2) phenomenon found in the modern Germanic languages. In particular, fronting of some element to clause-

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