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Clause structure and language change / edited by Adrian Battye, Ian Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Generative Diachronic Syntax Conference (1st : 1990 : University of York)
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses--Congresses.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax--Congresses.
- Linguistic change--Congresses.
- Linguistic change.
- Principles and parameters (Linguistics)--Congresses.
- Principles and parameters (Linguistics).
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb--Congresses.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Clitics--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (380 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure. These papers testify to the recent renewal of interest in diachronic syntax, a consequence of the new emphasis on comparative issues in the principles and parameters framework.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1. Introduction; 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""; 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""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""
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772136-2
- 1-280-52717-X
- 0-19-535879-1
- 1-4294-0649-6
- OCLC:
- 227038249
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