Auixiliary drop in Early Modern German

From Leiden Working Papers in Linguistics:

Anne Breitbarth (Tilburg University): Pragmatic aspects of Early Modern German auxiliary drop. Leiden Papers in Linguistics 3.1, 1-15.

Abstract: In this paper I argue that the ellipsis of finite auxiliaries, one of the more curious properties of Early Modern German, developed as a formal and pragmatic mark of the dependency of clauses. text

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