What is it about?
Subjects follow verbs in some cases in both Old English and Norse. The MIddle English order is plausibly derived from Norse.
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Why is it important?
The article shows that there are no common features of Old English and Middle English syntax that are not more generally from proto-Germanic.
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This article answers a challenge to the above claim by Bech and Walkden.
Joseph Emonds
Palacky University
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This page is a summary of: Middle English V2: Compatible with a North Germanic source?, Acta Linguistica Hungarica, December 2016, Akademiai Kiado,
DOI: 10.1556/064.2016.63.4.4.
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