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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From OV to VO in Early Middle English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Language abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The dialects of Middle English; Chapter 3 Syntactic change; Chapter 4 Word order change in EarlyMiddle English; Chapter 5 Object movement; Chapter 6 V2 and cliticisation of subject pronouns; Chapter 7 Stylistic fronting; Chapter 8 Summary and conclusions; Appendices; References; Index; The series LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY (LA).