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The place of Swedish in word order typology

This paper outlines the basic facts of Swedish clause-level word order, in particular the distribution of the verb-second (V2) phenomenon...

Keywords: embedded verb-second, subordinate clauses, Germanic, Kashmiri, complementizer

01/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag
Variation in the grammaticalization of complementizers from verba dicendi in Sinitic languages

This article presents the first study of crosslinguistic variation in grammaticalization processes affecting verba dicendi in Sinitic languages, making use of discourse data in the comparison...

Keywords: Cantonese, complementizer, discourse analysis, grammaticalization, quotative, Sinitic, Southern Min, speech reporting, syntax, verba dicendi

01/2008 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter