1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956587003321

Autore

Fischer Susann <1964->

Titolo

Word-order change as a source of grammaticalisation / / Susann Fischer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, Pa., : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010

ISBN

9786612663390

9781282663398

1282663399

9789027288189

9027288186

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, , 0166-0829 ; ; v. 157

Classificazione

ET 680

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Word order

Languages, Modern - Word order

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 historical comparative data showing that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have (had) a semantic effect in the Germanic and in the Romance languages, and that they both appear in the same functional category. The loss of stylistic fronting and oblique subjects is seen as an effect of grammaticalisation, where grammaticalisation is taken to be a regular case of parameter change. In contrast to previous and recent approaches to grammaticalisation, however, the author shows that it is not the loss of morphology that



triggers grammaticalisation with subsequent word-order changes, but that the word-order change sets off grammaticalisation in the functional categories, which is then followed by the loss of morphology.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910893084903321

Titolo

Annual report / / Canadian Human Rights Tribunal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa, : Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, [1999]-

Classificazione

cci1icc

coll11

coll14

coll29

coll108

Disciplina

353.4/8/097105

Soggetti

Civil rights - Canada

Civil rights

Periodicals

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on May 18, 2000).

Distributed by the Government of Canada Depository Services Program.