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Clause structure and language change /

A collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure. These papers testify to the recent renewal of interest in diachronic syntax, a consequence of the new emphasis on comparative issues in the principles and parameters framework.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Generative Diachronic Syntax Conference
Otros Autores: Battye, Adrian, Roberts, Ian G.
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Colección:Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why UG needs a learning theory : triggering verb movement / David Lightfoot
  • Two types of verb second in the history of Yiddish / Beatrice Santorini
  • The locus of verb-movement in non-asymmetric verb second languages : the case of Middle French / Monique Lemieux and Fernande Dupuis
  • Evidence for a verb-second in Old Portuguese / Ilza Robeiro
  • Indo-European origins of Germanic syntax / Paul Kiparsky
  • On the decline of verb-movement to comp in Old and Middle French / Barbara Vance
  • The loss of V2 in English and French / Christer Platzack
  • Verb second, prodrop, functional projections, and language change / Aafke Hulk and Ans van Kemenade
  • Null subjects in V1 embedded clauses in Philippe de Vigneulles Cent nouvelles nouvelles / Paul Hirschbuhler
  • The diachronic development of subject clitics in northeastern Italian dialects / Cecilia Poletto
  • Complement clitics in medieval Romance : the Tober-Mussafia law / Paola Benincà
  • Cases of verb-third in Old High German / Alessandra Tomaselli.