Schallert O (2019)
Publication Language: German
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2019
Book Volume: 141
Pages Range: 477–506
Journal Issue: 4
Since MHG times, W-exclamatives show variation between verb-second and verb-last word order. Contrary to Näf’s pilot study on Gottfried von Straßburg’s ›Tristan‹ (1992), I demonstrate that verb-last is in fact the more common pattern for W-exclamatives in MHG. This means that a syntactic change must have happened as the language develeped into Modern German, in which verb-second is the predominant order. As for the latter period, the long-standing assumption has been that there are no functional differences between these types. I show that at least for MHG, this null hypothesis is still valid, so that recent suggestions by Repp (2016) about present-day German that gradation is the distinguishing feature, cannot be supported for older stages of German.
APA:
Schallert, O. (2019). Verbstellungsvariation bei Exklamativen aus diachroner Perspektive. Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 141(4), 477–506. https://doi.org/10.1515/bgsl-2019-0030
MLA:
Schallert, Oliver. "Verbstellungsvariation bei Exklamativen aus diachroner Perspektive." Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 141.4 (2019): 477–506.
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