[PDF] Word Order Change eBook

Author : Bettelou Los
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027264848

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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.

Author : Ana Maria Martins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198747306

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This 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 : Susann Fischer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027255407

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followed by the loss of morphology. --Book Jacket.

Author : Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2001-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902729920X

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While 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 : Chaofen Sun
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780804724180

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The 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 : John A Hawkins
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1483296601

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Word Order Universals

Author : Ana Maria Martins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191064467

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This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax. Word order is at the core of natural language grammatical systems, linking syntax with prosody and with semantics and pragmatics. The chapters in this volume use the tools provided by the generative theory of grammar to examine the constrained ways in which historical word order variants have given way to new ones over time. Following an introduction by the editors, the book is divided into four parts that investigate changes regarding the targets for movement within the clausal functional hierarchy; changes (or stability) in the nature of the triggers for movement; verb movement into the left peripheries; and types of movement, with specific focus on word order change in Latin. Data are drawn from a wide variety of languages from different families and from both classical and modern periods, including Sanskrit, Tocharian, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Irish, Hungarian, and Coptic Egyptian. The book's broad coverage and combination of language-internal and comparative studies offers new perspectives on the relation between word order change and syntactic movement. The volume also provides a range of wider insights into the properties of natural language and the way in which those properties constrain language variation and change.

Author : Carol Lord
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
Release : 1993-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027276854

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This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in syntactic, morphological and lexical change. The process by which verbs lose lexical semantic content and develop case-marking functions is described; it is argued that the change is directional, from verb to preposition (or postposition) to affix, along a grammaticalization continuum. This same grammaticalization process is shown to result in the development of complementizers, adverbial subordinators, conjunctions, adverbs and auxiliaries from verbs. Strong parallels across languages are found in the meanings of the verbs that become “defective” and in the functions they come to mark. The changes are documented in detail, with examples from a number of languages illustrating the effect of the changes on typology and word order, implications for the encoding of definiteness and aspect, and the relevance of notions such as discourse topic, foreground and transitivity. With respect to theoretical assumptions and terminology, the author has taken a relatively nonpartisan approach, and the discussion is accessible to students of language as well as of interest to theoreticians.