Paul Widmer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul Widmer is involved.
Article
2023 Word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses: Corpus-based evidence from Indo-European Diachronica 40:4, pp. 532–556 | Article
In syntactic change, it remains an open issue whether word orders are more conservative or innovative in subordinate clauses compared with main clauses. Using 47 dependency-annotated corpora and Bayesian phylogenetic inference, we explore the evolution of S/V, V/O, and S/O orders across main and… read more