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In Search of Universal Grammar : From Old Norse to Zoque / Edited by Terje Lohndal, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today ; volume 202.
- Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 0166-0829 ; volume 202
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Generative grammar.
- Scandinavian languages--Grammar, Generative.
- Scandinavian languages.
- Scandinavian languages--Grammar, Historical.
- Zoque language--Grammar, Historical.
- Zoque language.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Historical linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction p. 1 / Terje Lohndal
- 2 Scandinavian
- 3 On the syntax of the accusative/dative alternation in spatial PPs in Norwegian dative dialects p. 9 / Tor A. Åfarli
- 4 Spurious topic drop in Swedish p. 27 / Christer Platzack
- 5 Germanic sociolinguistics
- 6 "The voice from below" p. 53 / Unn Røyneland
- 7 Gender maintenance and loss in Totenmålet, English, and other major Germanic varieties p. 77 / Peter Trudgill
- 8 French
- 9 Non-finite adjuncts in French p. 111 / Hans Petter Helland
- 10 Topics and the left periphery p. 131 / Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
- 11 Language change
- 12 The\developmental logic of the analytic past in German and Polish p. 175 / Werner Abraham
- 13 The\diachrony of pronouns and demonstratives p. 195 / Elly van Gelderen
- 14 Lesser-studied languages
- 15 Origins of metathesis in Batsbi p. 221 / Alice C. Harris
- 16 Indefinitely definite expressions p. 239 / Jerrold M. Sadock
- 17 Language acquisition
- 18 Doing diachrony p. 259 / David Lightfoot
- 19 The\acquisition of linguistic variation p. 275 / Marit Westergaard
- 20 Language evolution
- 21 The\evolution of language p. 301 / Erika Hagelberg
- 22 Language as technology p. 327 / Salikoko S. Mufwene
- 23 Index p. 359.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789027255853
- 9027255857
- OCLC:
- 813300959
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