Word Order Change
Title | Word Order Change PDF eBook |
Author | Ana Maria Martins |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0198747306 |
This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and related phenomena. It draws on data from a wide range of languages including Sanskrit, Tocharian, Portuguese, Irish, Hungarian and Coptic Egyptian.
Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact
Title | Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact PDF eBook |
Author | Bettelou Los |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2017-12-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027264848 |
The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attracts social values in the way that phonological variants do. Instead, speakers tend to attach discourse or information-structural functions to any word order variation they encounter in their input, either in the process of first language acquisition or in situations of language or dialect contact. In second language acquisition, fine-tuning information-structural constraints appears to be the last hurdle that has to be overcome by advanced learners. The papers in this volume focus on word order phenomena in the history of English, as well as in related languages like Norwegian and Dutch-based creoles, and in Romance.
Word Order Change in Icelandic
Title | Word Order Change in Icelandic PDF eBook |
Author | Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2001-01-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 902729920X |
While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patterns. In this volume, the author both examines the various VP-word order patterns from a descriptive and statistical point of view and provides a synchronic and diachronic analysis of VP-syntax in Old(er) Icelandic in terms of generative grammar. Her account makes use of a number of independently motivated ideas, notably remnant-movement of various kinds of predicative phrase, and the long movement associated with “restructuring” phenomena, to provide an analysis of OV orders and, correspondingly, a proposal as to which aspect of Icelandic syntax must have changed when VO word order became the norm: the essential change is loss of VP-extraction from VP. Although this idea is mainly supported here for Icelandic, it has numerous implications for the synchronic and diachronic analysis of other Germanic languages.
Word-order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation
Title | Word-order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation PDF eBook |
Author | Susann Fischer |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027255407 |
followed by the loss of morphology. --Book Jacket.
Word-Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese
Title | Word-Order Change and Grammaticalization in the History of Chinese PDF eBook |
Author | Chaofen Sun |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780804724180 |
The goal of this pioneering work is to make available to Chinese linguists, as well as linguists in general, the results of the most recent research - not only the author's but that of scholars all over the world - on two of the most discussed topics in the history of Chinese: word-order change and grammaticalization.
Word Order Universals
Title | Word Order Universals PDF eBook |
Author | John A Hawkins |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2014-05-19 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1483296601 |
Word Order Universals
Word Order and Word Order Change
Title | Word Order and Word Order Change PDF eBook |
Author | Charles N. Li |
Publisher | |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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