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Word order change in acquisition and language contact : essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade / edited by Bettelou Los, University of Edinburgh, Pieter de Haan, Radboud University Nijmegen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Linguistik aktuell
- Linguistik Aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; volume 243.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kemenade, Ans van (Anna Maria Cornelia) 1954- linguist.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Word order.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Languages, Modern--Word order.
- Languages, Modern.
- Local Subjects:
- Kemenade, Ans van (Anna Maria Cornelia) 1954- linguist.
- Physical Description:
- VII, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017].
- Summary:
- The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attracts social values in the way that phonological variants do. Instead, speakers tend to attach discourse or information-structural functions to any word order variation they encounter in their input, either in the process of first language acquisition or in situations of language or dialect contact. In second language acquisition, fine-tuning information-structural constraints appears to be the last hurdle that has to be overcome by advanced learners. The papers in this volume focus on word order phenomena in the history of English, as well as in related languages like Norwegian and Dutch-based creoles, and in Romance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789027257260
- 9027257264
- OCLC:
- 1002831330
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