What is it about?
The article deals with verbs that lack a subject, but have instead a dummy-subject in the dative case.
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Why is it important?
It is the first time that this construction is analyzed for Old Frisian and comprehensively surveys all verbs that occur in the impersonal construction. Relevant not only for students of Old Frisian, but also for comparative Germanic linguistics
Perspectives
As so often when doing research on Old Frisian, there is always something new to discover.
Dr Rolf H. Bremmer Jr
Universiteit Leiden
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This page is a summary of: The So-Called "Impersonal Verb"-Construction in Old Frisian, NOWELE North-Western European Language Evolution, September 1986, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/nowele.8.05bre.
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