While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as 'mixed' word order patterns

While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patt

followed by the loss of morphology. --Book Jacket.

The volume presents new approaches to explaining word order variation and change in the Germanic languages and thus relates to one of the most prominent and wid

This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and rel