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| Publication date |
2008
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| Journal |
Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics
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| Event |
14th International Congress of Slavists
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| Volume | Issue number |
34
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| Pages (from-to) |
349-396
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
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| Abstract |
This article discusses the linguistic issues involved in so-called OVS sentences (sentences with the word order Object-Verb-Subject). These issues have been raised ever since general linguistic theories (e.g. Greenberg, Chomsky) found OVS sentences problematic. On the basis of Slavic examples from the Amsterdam Slavic Parallel Aligned Corpus it is shown that the presumed problems do not exist in Slavic languages. Instead, a whole series of questions involving socalled converse structure awaits further investigation.
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| Document type |
Article
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| Note |
Proceedings title: Dutch contributions to the Fourteenth International Congress of Slavists: Ohrid, September 10-16, 2008. Linguistics
Publisher: Rodopi
Place of publication: Amsterdam/New York
ISBN: 9789042024427
Editors: P. Houtzagers, J. Kalsbeek, J. Schaeken
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| Language |
English
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| Published at |
http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/c.e.keijsper/bestanden/ssgl%2034_10_Cornelia%20E.%20Keijsper.pdf
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