Dative subjects in Gothic.
This article is devoted to the study of potential dative subjects in Gothic, the earliest attested Germanic language, focusing in particular on word-order distribution in the Gothic Bible, the Skeireins, and the Bologna Fragment. This entails a comparison between affirmative clauses, negated clauses...
| Publicado en: | Indogermanische Forschungen: Zeitschrift für Indogermanistik und allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Vol. 129; no. 1; pp. 101 - 149 |
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De Gruyter
Dec2024
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