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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2019-12-01
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Series: | Open Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0040 |