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Studies in Brythonic word order /

While Celtic languages are nominally VSO in basic word order, the languages of the Brythonic branch have exhibited striking synchronic and historical variations from the prototype. This volume comprises the very latest research in word order in Welsh, reton and Cornish from nine of the leading schol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fife, James, Poppe, Erich
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.
Colección:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 83.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • STUDIES IN BRYTHONIC WORD ORDER; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction
  • Word Order in Brythonic; On the Prehistory of Brittonic Syntax; Further Notes on Constituent Order in Welsh; Focus and the Welsh 'Abnormal Sentence': A Cross-linguistic Perspective; Word Order in Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys: Notes on the Pragmatics of Constituent-Ordering in MW Narrative Prose; Notes on Word Order in Beunans Meriasek; Some Constituent-order Frequencies in Classical Welsh Prose; The Discourse Pragmatics of NP-Initial Sentences in Breton.
  • The Directionality of Head Subcategorization in WelshThe Function of Cleft and Non-cleft Constituent Orders in Modern Welsh; Subject Index.