Clause Structure and Language Change.
Title:
Clause Structure and Language Change.
Author:
Battye, Adrian.
ISBN:
9780195358797
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (380 pages)
Series:
Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
Contents:
Contents -- 1. Introduction -- PART ONE: The Diachrony of Verb Second -- 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" -- PART TWO: Verb Second and the Null-Subject Parameter -- 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" -- PART THREE: Clitics and Verb Second -- 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".
Abstract:
This is a collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure, an issue of central importance since the pioneering work in the late 1980s by Chomsky and Pollock. The collection testifies to the recent renewal of interest in questions of diachronic syntax, a consequence of the new emphasis on comparative issues in the principles and parameters framework. Languages studied in this volume include all the major Romance and Germanic languages.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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