Lability and the rigidification of word order: evidence from Early Middle English
This article analyzes quantitatively the effect of five linguistic features on the position of the object in Early Middle English. Four of them have long been explored in the literature: object type, object length, clause type and type of verbal cluster (±auxiliary). The fifth feature, lability, has...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2023-09-01
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| Series: | Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0036 |
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