Common Contracts

The Germanic languages and the SOV/SVO difference

February 7th, 2009

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  February 7th, 2009

Among the Germanic and Romance languages, the languages that lack predicative adjective agreement without lacking attributive adjective agreement are all SOV languages (including Yiddish). I will link this to the OV/VO-difference, based on the Optimality Theory analysis of this difference given in Vikner (2001b).

The Germanic Languages and the SOV/SVO difference

August 18th, 2006

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  August 18th, 2006

Among the Germanic and Romance languages, the languages that lack predicative adjective agreement without lacking attributive adjective agreement are all SOV languages (including Yiddish). I will link this to the OV/VO-difference, based on the Optimality Theory analysis of this difference given in Vikner (2001b).