Word order change in acquisition and language contact : essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade / edited by Bettelou Los, Pieter de Haan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Los, Bettelou, editor.

Haan, Pieter de, editor.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Volume 243.

Linguistik Aktuell = Linguistic Today, 0166-0829 ; Volume 243

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Word order.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Languages, Modern--Word order.

Languages, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

From OV to VO in English : how to Kroch the nut / Roland Hinterhölzl

Word order and verb movement in Norwegian wh-questions : a comparison of production and judgment data / Marit Westergaard

Conditional inversion and types of parametric change / Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts

Optional V2 in modern Afrikaans : probing a Germanic peculiarity / Theresa Biberauer

The information status of late subjects in passive main clauses in Old English / Gea Dreschler

Position-related subject properties change in English / Erwin Komen

Split coordination in early english / Ann Taylor and Susan Pintzuk

Beowulf and Old English metre : relics of a pre-V2 state? / Monique Tangelder and Bettelou Los

The rise and fall of the passive auxiliary weorðan in the history of English / Gertjan Postma

What comes second : cross-linguistic analyses of information structure in Dutch between English and German / Marianne Starren

Verb particle combinations and word order change in Dutch-lexifier Creole languages / Robbert van Sluijs, Pieter Muysken and Bettelou Los

Parts and particles : the story of de / Nigel Vincent

Exploring the role of information structure in the word order variation of Old English verb-particle combinations / Marion Elenbaas

The EFL teacher's nightmare : information structure transfer from L2 English to L1 Dutch / Pieter de Haan

Common framework, local context, local anchors : how information-structural transfer can help to distinguish within CEFR C2 / Sanne van Vuuren and Rina de Vries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed December 23, 2017).

OCLC:

1013584465