Verb placement and accentuation: Does prosody constrain the Estonian V2?

The paper contributes to the understanding of the variation in finite verb placement in Estonian, a verb-second language, by establishing two descriptive facts. First, it identifies a previously undescribed finite verb position in Estonian declarative main clauses, which will be referred to as ‘clau...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sahkai Heete, Tamm Anne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2019-12-01
Series:Open Linguistics
Subjects:
v2
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0040