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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825091703321

Autore

Bauer Brigitte L. M. <1961->

Titolo

The emergence and development of SVO patterning in Latin and French : diachronic and psycholinguistic perspectives / / Brigitte L.M. Bauer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772160-5

1-280-52756-0

0-19-535805-8

1-4294-0658-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online.

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Word order

Historical linguistics

Typology (Linguistics)

Language acquisition

Latin language - Word order

Latin language - Grammar, Historical

French language - Word order

French language - Grammar, Historical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. The Definition of Head; 3. Diachronic Analysis: The Noun Phrase; 4. Diachronic Analysis: The Verb Phrase; 5. Diachronic Analysis: Early Right-Branching Structures; 6. The Acquisition of Branching; 7. Conclusion; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This treatise argues that there has been an evolution in Romance syntax and morphology from left-branching structures (subject-object-verb) to right-branching structures (subject-verb-object). It uses data from child language acquisition studies to back up this claim.