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German word order rules require subordinate clauses to place finite verbs in final position.
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German grammatical rules dictate that subordinate clauses place finite verbs in the final position, a standard typological feature supported by linguistic literature.

Evidence for · 2
A competitive mechanism selecting verb-second versus verb-final word order in causative and argumentative clauses of spoken Dutch: A corpus-linguistic study
2018 · cited by 2
States that in German, the canonical order of subordinate clauses places the finite verb in the final position.
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The retrieved papers explicitly confirm that German subordinate clauses feature a verb-final canonical word order (Papers 5 and 8). There are no papers contradicting this foundational rule of German syntax. Therefore, the verdict is SUPPORTED.

More for · 1
The role of variation of verb placement in the input
2020 · cited by 1
Discusses verb placement in German relative clauses, noting the standard verb-final structure.
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  1. Language-specific neural dynamics extend syntax into the time domain.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  2. Continuous Theta-Burst Stimulation on the Left Posterior Inferior Frontal Gyrus Perturbs Complex Syntactic Processing Stability in Mandarin Chinese.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  3. The contributions of language and inhibitory control to false belief reasoning over time.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. The Understanding of Complex Syntax in Children From 5 to 9 Years, Using a Novel Assessment Approach - The Test of Complex Syntax- Electronic (TECS-E).peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Boosting or inhibiting - how semantic-pragmatic and syntactic cues affect prosodic prominence relations in German.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. A competitive mechanism selecting verb-second versus verb-final word order in causative and argumentative clauses of spoken Dutch: A corpus-linguistic studypeer-reviewedsupports
  7. Microstructure competences and grammatical errors of Danish-speaking children with developmental language disorder when telling and retelling narratives and engaging in spontaneous language.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. Feature reassembly and L1 preemption: Acquiring CLLD in L2 Italian and L2 Romanian.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. The role of variation of verb placement in the inputpeer-reviewedsupports
  10. Cognitive Mechanisms of Referential Ambiguity Resolution in L2 Russian by Chinese Learners: Evidence from Eye-Tracking.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Resolution of Null and Overt Pronouns in Catalan: An Eye Tracking Study.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. Syntactic language change in English and German: Metrics, parsers, and convergences.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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first checked06 Aug 2026
judged → SUPPORTED · 6606 Aug 2026
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