Bibliographic Information

Clause structure and language change

edited by Adrian Battye, Ian Roberts

(Oxford studies in comparative syntax / Richard Kayne, general editor)

Oxford University Press, 1995

  • : hard
  • : pbk

Available at  / 90 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Collection of papers based on material presented at the 1st Generative Diachronic Syntax Conference which was held at the University of York, Apr. 1990

Bibliography: p. 368-369

Contents of Works

  • 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 phase in Old Portuguese / Ilza Ribeiro
  • 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 verb second in English and French / Christer Platzack
  • Verb second, pro-drop, functional projections, and language change / Aafke Hulk, Ans van Kemenade
  • Null subjects in verb-first embedded clauses in Philippe de Vigneulles' Cent nouvelles nouvelles / Paul Hirschbühler
  • 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

Related Books: 1-1 of 1

Details

Page Top