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Title Word order change in acquisition and language contact : essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade / [edited by] Bettelou Los, Pieter de Haan
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

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Series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics today (LA) ; volume 243
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 243.
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
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
Notes "Papers presented at a symposium held on September 3, 2014, in Huize Heyendael, Nijmegen, in honor of Ans van Kenenade."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record; title from PDF title page, viewed (05/14/2020)
Subject English language -- Word order -- Congresses
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word order -- Congresses
Language acquisition -- Congresses
Languages in contact -- Congresses
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
English language -- Word order
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word order
Language acquisition
Languages in contact
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Los, Bettelou, editor
Haan, Pieter de, editor
Kemenade, Ans van, 1954- honouree.
LC no. 2018019926
ISBN 9789027264848
9027264848