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From OV to VO in early Middle English /
This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed before...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
2002.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 60. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed before, i.e., northern Early Middle English texts clearly show Scandinavian syntactic patterns like stylistic fronting that can only be found today in the Modern Scandinavian languages. Thus, it sheds new light on the force of language contact in that it shows that a language can be heavily influenced thr. |
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| Notas: | A revision of the author's doctoral dissertation, submitted to the University of Stuttgart, 2001. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 356 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-350) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027296276 9027296278 9781588113115 1588113116 9789027227812 9027227810 |
| ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |