Studies in West Frisian Grammar : Selected papers by Germen J. de Haan /
In this volume, Germen de Haan gives a multi-faceted view of the syntax, sociolinguistics, and phonology of West-Frisian. The author discusses distinct aspects of the syntax of verbs in Frisian: finiteness and Verb Second, embedded root phenomena, the verbal complex, verbal complementation, and comp...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2010.
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Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 161. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Jarich Hoekstra, Goffe Jensma & Willem Visser
- Recent trends in Frisian linguistics
- Why Old Frisian is really Middle Frisian
- Syntax of Old Frisian
- Finiteness and verb fronting
- More is going on upstairs than downstairs: embedded root phenomena in Frisian
- The Imperativus-pro-Infinitivo
- Two infinitives: 'prate' and 'praten'
- The verbal complex
- The third construction
- Complementizer agreement
- Grammatical borrowing and language change: the dutchification of Frisian
- Frisian language changes
- Recent changes in the verbal complex of Frisian
- Contact-induced changes in Modern West Frisian
- On the (in- )stability of Frisian
- Nasalization and lengthening
- Monophthongs and syllable structure
- A lexical theory of schwa-deletion.