Verbalpartikelvariation i de germanske sprog

Abstract

I have two goals in this paper, namely (1) a more global one: to present (and try to account for) the variation concerning verb particles across the Germanic languages, and (2) a more “local” one: to use some of this variation data to support my analysis that Yiddish is an SOV-language like German and Dutch and not an SVO-language like English and the Scandinavian languages. Yiddish is similar to German as far as verb particles are concerned, and this follows from an analysis of Yiddish as SOV, but not from a hypothetical SVO-analysis.

Leiv Inge Aa. Norwegian Verb Particles (Studies in Germanic Linguistics 4), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2020. Pp ix + 184.

“…Yiddish differs from German, Dutch and Afrikaans in that the particle precedes the direct object in V2 structures. In Yiddish non-V2 structures, the particle immediately precedes the verb, which in turn can precede or follow the object (Diesing, 1997; Vikner, 2016).…”