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Word-order change as a source of grammaticalisation /

This book presents a new perspective on the interaction between word-order and grammaticalisation by investigating the changes that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have undergone in Romance (Catalan, French, Spanish) as compared to Germanic (English, Icelandic). It discusses a great deal of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fischer, Susann, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 157.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Different views on grammaticalisation and its relation to word-order
  • Historical overview of oblique subjects in Germanic and Romance
  • Historical overview of stylistic fronting in Germanic and Romance
  • Accounting for the differences and similarities between the languages under investigation
  • Explaining the changes: minimalism meets von Humboldt and Meillet
  • References.