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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785822003321

Titolo

Language change and language structure : older Germanic languages in a comparative perspective / / editors, Toril Swan, Endre Mørck, Olaf Jansen Westvik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1994

ISBN

3-11-088657-X

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 346 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; ; 73

Classificazione

GB 5601

Altri autori (Persone)

MørckEndre <1952->

SwanToril

WestvikOlaf Jansen <1943->

Disciplina

430/.09

Soggetti

Germanic languages - History

Linguistic change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- The development of the runic script and its relationship to Germanic phonological history / Bammesberger, Alfred -- Some typological tendencies in the development of the noun phrase in Germanic languages / Braunmüller, Kurt -- On comparatives in English and other languages / Breivik, Leiv Egil -- Sentences with initial adverbials in the law of Magnus Lagabøter with particular emphasis on the position of the subject / Christoffersen, Marit -- The fortunes of the Latin-type accusative and infinitive construction in Dutch and English compared / Fischer, Olga -- Typological differences between English and German morphology and their causes / Kastovsky, Dieter -- The distribution of subject properties and the acquisition of subjecthood in the West Scandinavian languages / Mørck, Endre -- Ingerid Dal's views on Old Saxon in the light of new evidence / Nielsen, Hans F. -- Kuhn's laws and rise of verb-second syntax / Stockwell, Robert / Minkova, Donka -- A note on Old English and Old Norse initial adverbials and word order with special reference to sentence adverbials / Swan, Toril -- Dating the division between High and Low Germanic: A summary of arguments / Vennemann, Theo -- On the subject of some nominativeless sentences in Old Germanic / Westvik, Olaf Jansen -- Subject Index



Sommario/riassunto

Language Change and Language Structure : Older Germanic Languages in a Comparative Perspective  Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]