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  • Bech, Kristin (Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    This three-part study considers adjectival modification in Old English noun phrases from a micro-level perspective. In the first part, I outline and discuss Fischer’s (2000, 2001, 2006, 2012) and Haumann’s (2003, 2010) ...
  • Möhlig-Falke, Ruth; Bech, Kristin (Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
  • Bech, Kristin (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    In Bech (2001a, 2001b), I took issue with the oft-repeated claim that Old English conjunct main clauses are commonly verb-final, and disproved it. However, the myth persists. In the meantime, the York–Toronto–Helsinki ...
  • Bech, Kristin (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    The topic of this paper is Old English and Old Norwegian noun phrases containing two attributive adjectives. An overview of the frequency of various word order constellations will be given, before we zoom in on one of them, ...
  • Salvesen, Christine Meklenborg; Bech, Kristin (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    Both Old English and Old French are commonly described as V2 languages. We investigate the position of the postverbal subject based on a corpus of medieval texts with respect to syntax and information structure. Our main ...