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...
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. 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.