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The emergence and development of SVO patterning in Latin and French : diachronic and psycholinguistic perspectives / Brigitte L.M. Bauer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bauer, Brigitte L. M. (Brigitte Louise Maria), 1960- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Word order.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Historical linguistics.
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Language acquisition.
- Latin language--Word order.
- Latin language.
- Latin language--Grammar, Historical.
- French language--Word order.
- French language.
- French language--Grammar, Historical.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This treatise argues that there has been an evolution in Romance syntax and morphology from left-branching structures (subject-object-verb) to right-branching structures (subject-verb-object). It uses data from child language acquisition studies to back up this claim.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. The Definition of Head; 3. Diachronic Analysis: The Noun Phrase; 4. Diachronic Analysis: The Verb Phrase; 5. Diachronic Analysis: Early Right-Branching Structures; 6. The Acquisition of Branching; 7. Conclusion; References; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772160-5
- 1-280-52756-0
- 0-19-535805-8
- 1-4294-0658-5
- OCLC:
- 476013208
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