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Summary. The continental West Germanic dialect continuum roughly encompasses the territory of modern-day Germany, Austria, the German-speaking part of Switzerland, the Netherlands, the northern half of Belgium (Flanders), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and South Tyrol, in northern Italy.
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the grouping of the Germanic languages is the fact that a dialect continuum cannot be constructed to the extent that modern dialect continua are constructed. This is due to the insufficiency of material. There were several major centers for writing in the various Germanic languages historically, but only a small fraction of the geographical areas
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Alternatively, in a dialect continuum, North Germanic may have shared innovations with first East, then West Germanic prior to the final split. Finally, the chapter examines with which Indo-European branches Germanic shares non-trivial innovations and thus, maybe, a common node on the cladistic tree.
This article examines the syntactic patterns of Continental West-Germanic languages. It explains that Continental West-Germanic dialects display largely identical syntax, characterized by an asymmetry between main and embedded clauses with respect to the position of the finite verb, and by the clause-final position of clusters of nonfinite verbs.
Conclusions a large number of shared innovations (some of them ordered) indicate that there was a common proto-stage in the development of the West Germanic languages. In addition, we can recover not only much of a Proto-West-Germanic dialect continuum, but elements of a north-West-Germanic dialect continuum as well.
