This paper investigates how (in)definiteness in word order; more specifically, how it in the ordering of objects in the Mittelfeld of German double-object constructions. As a starting point I take what I'll call the Indefinite Puzzle

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What Do Definites Do That Indefinites Definitely Don't?

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