Language change and language structure [[electronic resource] ] : older Germanic languages in a comparative perspective / / edited by Toril Swan, Endre Mørck, Olaf Jansen Westvik

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1994
• Edizione: Reprint 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Disciplina: 430/.09
• Soggetto topico: Germanic languages - History; Linguistic change
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: MørckEndre <1952-> SwanToril WestvikOlaf Jansen <1943->
• 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]
• Titolo autorizzato: Language change and language structure
• ISBN: 3-11-088657-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462279703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]