Clause Structure and Language Change.

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This is a collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure, an issue of central importance since the pioneering work in the late 1980s by Chomsky and Pollock. The collection testifies to the recent renewal of interest in questions of diachr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Battye, Adrian
Otros Autores: Roberts, Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Temas:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Clauses > Congresses.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax > Congresses.
Linguistic change > Congresses.
Principles and parameters (Linguistics) > Congresses.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb > Congresses.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Clitics > Congresses.
Propositions (Linguistique) > Congrès.
Syntaxe > Congrès.
Changement linguistique > Congrès.
Principes et paramètres (Linguistique) > Congrès.
Verbe (Linguistique) > Congrès.
Clitiques > Congrès.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Clauses
Grammar, Comparative and general > Clitics
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Grammar, Comparative and general > Verb
Linguistic change
Principles and parameters (Linguistics)
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction; PART ONE: The Diachrony of Verb Second; 2. Why UG Needs a Learning Theory: Triggering Verb Movement
  • 3. Two Types of Verb Second in the History of Yiddish
  • 4. The Locus of Verb Movement in Non-Asymmetric Verb-Second Languages: The Case of Middle French
  • 5. Evidence for a Verb-Second Phase in Old Portuguese
  • 6. Indo-European Origins of Germanic Syntax
  • PART TWO: Verb Second and the Null-Subject Parameter; 7. On the Decline of Verb Movement to Comp in Old and Middle French
  • 8. The Loss of Verb Second in English and French
  • 9. Verb Second, Pro-drop, Functional Projections and Language Change10. Null Subjects in Verb-First Embedded Clauses in Philippe de Vigneulles' Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles
  • PART THREE: Clitics and Verb Second; 11. The Diachronic Development of Subject Clitics in North Eastern Italian Dialects
  • 12. Complement Clitics in Medieval Romance: the Tobler-Mussafia Law
  • 13. Cases of Verb Third in Old High German

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