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Studies in West Frisian Grammar : Selected papers by Germen J. de Haan /

In this volume, Germen de Haan gives a multi-faceted view of the syntax, sociolinguistics, and phonology of West-Frisian. The author discusses distinct aspects of the syntax of verbs in Frisian: finiteness and Verb Second, embedded root phenomena, the verbal complex, verbal complementation, and comp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haan, G. J. de, Hoekstra, Jarich, 1956-, Visser, Willem, Jensma, Goffe (Goffe Theunis), 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 161.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Jarich Hoekstra, Goffe Jensma & Willem Visser
  • Recent trends in Frisian linguistics
  • Why Old Frisian is really Middle Frisian
  • Syntax of Old Frisian
  • Finiteness and verb fronting
  • More is going on upstairs than downstairs: embedded root phenomena in Frisian
  • The Imperativus-pro-Infinitivo
  • Two infinitives: 'prate' and 'praten'
  • The verbal complex
  • The third construction
  • Complementizer agreement
  • Grammatical borrowing and language change: the dutchification of Frisian
  • Frisian language changes
  • Recent changes in the verbal complex of Frisian
  • Contact-induced changes in Modern West Frisian
  • On the (in- )stability of Frisian
  • Nasalization and lengthening
  • Monophthongs and syllable structure
  • A lexical theory of schwa-deletion.