Forwarded from the GSLIST.
A 'Bibliography on West Germanic Verb Clusters' is available at:
http://web.mit.edu/susi/www/verbclusterbib.html
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From: Susi Wurmbrand <[log in to unmask]>
This posting is directed to German speakers! I apologize for cross postings.
I am condictung a survey on word order variation in so-called verb clusters
(i.e., sentences with more than one verb). Data reported in the literature
and a preliminary survey have shown that in two verb clusters, both orders
are documented to be acceptable by certain speakers; in three verb
clusters, of the six possible word orders five are documented in at least
some West Germanic dialect. However, a systematic characterization and
correlation of word order possibilities and languages/dialects is not
available yet. I have thus developed a questionnaire (at the moment only
for German) which addresses this word order variation in verb clusters. The
results of the questionnaire are intended to serve as the basis for a
dialect atlas which systematizes the variation found in the ordering of
verbal elements in verb clusters.
If you are a native speaker of German and are interested in
supporting this project I would appreciate it very much if you could take a
few minutes and fill out the questionnaire. The questionnaire can be
obtained in a number of ways. You can download it from my web page:
http://web.mit.edu/susi/www/verbclusters.html
(post script and Word 98 available)
or you could contact me at: [log in to unmask]
and I could send you either a file in a different format or a paper copy of
the questionnaire.
Many thanks,
-- Susi Wurmbrand.
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Susi Wurmbrand
Home page: http://web.mit.edu/susi/www/home.html
from October to December 1999:
Department of Linguistics
University of Vienna
Berggasse 11
A-1090 Wien
AUSTRIA
from January 2000:
Department of Linguistics
McGill University
1085 Dr. Penfield
Montreal, PQ. H3A 1A7
CANADA
Phone: (514) 939-0953
Fax: (514) 398-7088
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