From OV to VO in early Middle English / Carola Trips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trips, Carola.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 60.

Linguistics today = Linguistik aktuell, 0166-0829 ; v. 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Word order.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 2002.

Summary:

This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed before, i.e., northern Early Middle English texts clearly show Scandinavian syntactic patterns like stylistic fronting that can only be found today in the Modern Scandinavian languages. Thus, it sheds new light on the force of language contact in that it shows that a language can be heavily influenced through contact with another language in such a way that it affects deeper levels of language. It further gives an introduction to working with the Penn-Helsinki-Parsed Corpus of Middle English II (PPCMEII). It discusses the texts included in the corpus, it describes the format of the texts, and it explains how to search the corpus with the tool called Corpus Search. The book targets researchers in diachronic syntax, comparative syntax and in general linguists working in the field of generative syntax. It can further be used as an introduction to working with the PPCMEII.

Contents:

From OV to VO in Early Middle English

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Language abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Introduction

Notes

Chapter 2 The dialects ofMiddle English

Chapter 3 Syntactic change

Chapter 4 Word order change in EarlyMiddle English

Chapter 5 Object movement

Chapter 6 V2 and cliticisation of subject pronouns

Chapter 7 Stylistic fronting

Chapter 8 Summary and conclusions

Appendices

References

Index

The series LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY (LA).

Notes:

A revision of the author's doctoral dissertation, submitted to the University of Stuttgart, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-350) and index.

ISBN:

9786612161049

9781282161047

1282161040

9789027296276

9027296278

OCLC:

56117887