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Peer reviewedPintzuk, Susan – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Argues that the position of the finite verb in Old English clauses reflects synchronic variation in underlying structure, INFL-medial versus INFL-final, and that the syntax of main and subordinate clauses is the same. Quantitative data analysis indicates that the frequency of INFL-medial structure increases at the expense of INFL-final structure…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Negative Forms (Language), Old English
