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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	C.  Jan-Wouter Zwart
Institution:	University of Groningen
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Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :	Morphosyntax of Verb Movement - A Minimalist Approach to the Syntax of Dutch  Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology  Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology
Academic Paper Abstract:	A comparative approach to syntactic change in the history of English
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