A southern German use of prefield-eses: Evidence from the corpus and an experimental study
There is a use of the German third person neuter pronoun eses in the prefield, known as prefield-eses, which is characterized by being neither referential, nor an argument of the verb. According to Speyer’s (2008, 2009) optimality theoretic prefield ranking, this should only occur if a sentence cont...
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| Language: | deu |
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De Gruyter
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2020-2012 |