| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 369 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford studies in comparative syntax |
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Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
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| Contents |
Why UG needs a learning theory : triggering verb movement / David Lightfoot -- Two types of verb second in the history of Yiddish / Beatrice Santorini -- The locus of verb-movement in non-asymmetric verb second languages : the case of Middle French / Monique Lemieux and Fernande Dupuis -- Evidence for a verb-second in Old Portuguese / Ilza Robeiro -- Indo-European origins of Germanic syntax / Paul Kiparsky -- On the decline of verb-movement to comp in Old and Middle French / Barbara Vance -- The loss of V2 in English and French / Christer Platzack -- Verb second, prodrop, functional projections, and language change / Aafke Hulk and Ans van Kemenade -- Null subjects in V1 embedded clauses in Philippe de Vigneulles Cent nouvelles nouvelles / Paul Hirschbuhler -- The diachronic development of subject clitics in northeastern Italian dialects / Cecilia Poletto -- Complement clitics in medieval Romance : the Tober-Mussafia law / Paola Benincà -- Cases of verb-third in Old High German / Alessandra Tomaselli |
| 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A collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure.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 |
| Analysis |
Grammar |
| Notes |
Based on material presented at the 1st Generative Diachronic Syntax Conference which was held at the University of York, Apr. 1990 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses -- Congresses
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses
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Linguistic change -- Congresses
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Principles and parameters (Linguistics) -- Congresses
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb -- Congresses
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clitics -- Congresses
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clitics.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb.
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Linguistic change.
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Principles and parameters (Linguistics)
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Historische taalwetenschap.
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Generatieve grammatica.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Battye, Adrian
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Roberts, Ian G
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Generative Diachronic Syntax Conference (1st : 1990 : University of York)
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| LC no. |
94034278 |
| ISBN |
1429406496 |
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9781429406499 |
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0195358791 |
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9780195358797 |
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9780195086324 |
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0195086325 |
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9780195086331 |
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0195086333 |
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9786610527175 |
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6610527172 |
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