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Author: Ana Maria Martins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0198747306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and related phenomena. It draws on data from a wide range of languages including Sanskrit, Tocharian, Portuguese, Irish, Hungarian and Coptic Egyptian.
Author: Bettelou Los
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2017-12-14
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9027264848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Charles N. Li
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2001-01-23
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 902729920X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patterns. In this volume, the author both examines the various VP-word order patterns from a descriptive and statistical point of view and provides a synchronic and diachronic analysis of VP-syntax in Old(er) Icelandic in terms of generative grammar. Her account makes use of a number of independently motivated ideas, notably remnant-movement of various kinds of predicative phrase, and the long movement associated with “restructuring” phenomena, to provide an analysis of OV orders and, correspondingly, a proposal as to which aspect of Icelandic syntax must have changed when VO word order became the norm: the essential change is loss of VP-extraction from VP. Although this idea is mainly supported here for Icelandic, it has numerous implications for the synchronic and diachronic analysis of other Germanic languages.
Author: Susann Fischer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9027255407
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Author: John A Hawkins
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2014-05-19
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1483296601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWord Order Universals
Author: Chaofen Sun
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780804724180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe goal of this pioneering work is to make available to Chinese linguists, as well as linguists in general, the results of the most recent research - not only the author's but that of scholars all over the world - on two of the most discussed topics in the history of Chinese: word-order change and grammaticalization.
Author: Doris L. Payne
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9027229058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor some time the assumption has been widely held that for a majority of the world's languages, one can identify a "basic" order of subject and object relative to the verb, and that when combined with other facts of the language, the "basic" order constitutes a useful way of typologizing languages. New debate has arisen over varying definitions of "basic," with investigators encountering languages where branding a particular order of grammatical relations as basic yielded no particular insightfulness. This work asserts that explanatory factors behind word order variation go beyond the syntactic and are to be found in studies of how the mind grammaticizes forms, processes information, and speech act theory considerations of speakers' attempts to get their hearers to build one, rather than another, mental representation of incoming information. Thus three domains must be distinguished in understanding order variation: syntactic, cognitive and pragmatic. The works in this volume explore various aspects of this assertion.
Author: Rosanna Sornicola
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2000-12-21
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9027284717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories. The interest in this theme has been revamped by contemporary research in typology with its emphasis on correlation or ‘harmonies’ of structures of word-order as explicative principles of both synchronic and diachronic processes. The aim of this book is to stimulate a critical reconsideration of perspectives and methods in the study of continuities and discontinuities of word-order patterns. Bringing together contributions by specialists of various theoretical backgrounds and with expertise in different language families or groups (Caucasian, Hamito-Semitic, and — among Indo-European — Hittite, Greek, Celtic, Germanic, Slavonic, Romance), the book addresses issues like the notions of stability, variation and change of word-order and their interrelations, the interplay of syntactic and pragmatic factors, and the role of internal and external factors in synchronic and diachronic dynamics of word-order. The book contains a selection of papers presented at a workshop held at the XIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Düsseldorf, August 1997) and additonal invited contributions.
Author: John S. Bowers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1107096758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book proposes that the fundamental building blocks of syntax are relations between words rather than constituents formed from words.
