Open AccessPostverbal subjects in Old English and Old French
Author(s) -
Christine Meklenborg Salvesen,
Kristin Bech
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
oslo studies in language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1890-9639
DOI - 10.5617/osla.725
Subject(s) - linguistics , information structure , syntax , subject (documents) , old english , computer science , history , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , library science
Both Old English and Old French are commonly described as V2 languages. We investigate the position of the postverbal subject based on a corpus of medieval texts with respect to syntax and information structure. Our main findings are that information structure plays a more important role in Old English than in Old French.