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Titolo: | Clause structure and language change / / edited by Adrian Battye, Ian Roberts |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
Disciplina: | 415 |
Soggetto topico: | Grammar, Comparative and general - Clauses |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax | |
Linguistic change | |
Principles and parameters (Linguistics) | |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb | |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Clitics | |
Altri autori: | BattyeAdrian RobertsIan G |
Note generali: | Based on material presented at the 1st Generative Diachronic Syntax Conference which was held at the University of York, Apr. 1990. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. ""Why UG Needs a Learning Theory: Triggering Verb Movement""; 3. ""Two Types of Verb Second in the History of Yiddish""; 4. ""The Locus of Verb Movement in Non-Asymmetric Verb-Second Languages: The Case of Middle French""; 5. ""Evidence for a Verb-Second Phase in Old Portuguese""; 6. ""Indo-European Origins of Germanic Syntax""; 7. ""On the Decline of Verb Movement to Comp in Old and Middle French""; 8. ""The Loss of Verb Second in English and French""; 9. ""Verb Second, Pro-drop, Functional Projections and Language Change"" |
10. ""Null Subjects in Verb-First Embedded Clauses in Philippe de Vigneulles' Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles""11. ""The Diachronic Development of Subject Clitics in North Eastern Italian Dialects""; 12. ""Complement Clitics in Medieval Romance: the Tobler-Mussafia Law""; 13. ""Cases of Verb Third in Old High German"" | |
Sommario/riassunto: | A collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure. These papers testify to the recent renewal of interest in diachronic syntax, a consequence of the new emphasis on comparative issues in the principles and parameters framework. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Clause structure and language change |
ISBN: | 0-19-772136-2 |
1-280-52717-X | |
0-19-535879-1 | |
1-4294-0649-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910822130003321 |
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