Abstract
The Continental West Germanic Languages include the standard varieties of Dutch, Frisian, and High German, as well as a large number of non-standard varieties, the more familiar of which are the dialects spoken in Belgium and the South of the Netherlands (Flemish, Brabantish, Limburgian), Northern Germany (Low German), the Rhine Valley (Luxemburgish), South-Eastern Germany and Austria (e.g. Bavarian), and Switzerland (Swiss German). In this paper, both the standard and the non-standard varieties will be referred to as dialects. All these dialects differ from English in having the finite verb occupy the position after the first constituent in main clauses (a property the Continental West Germanic dialects share with the North Germanic dialects), and differ from both English and North Germanic in having the verb follow its noun phrase complement in embedded clauses and infinitival constructions. The latter property is illustrated in (1) for Dutch:
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