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Wackernagel's law: a standalone construct

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Classics

the tendency in older Indo-European languages for unstressed clitic words to stand in second position in the clause.

In classics, Wackernagel's law refers to the tendency in older Indo-European languages for unstressed clitic words to stand in second position in the clause. This meaning comes from Wackernagel (1892) in Indogermanische Forschungen.[1]

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clause2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs clitic1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · one construct, one field position3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Wackernagel, J. (1892). Über ein Gesetz der indogermanischen Wortstellung. Indogermanische Forschungen, 1(1), 333-436. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110242430.333

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