Clause structure and language change
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Clause structure and language change
（Oxford studies in comparative syntax / Richard Kayne, general editor）
Oxford University Press, 1995
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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
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: hard ISBN 9780195086324
Description
This is a collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure, an issue of central importance since the pioneering work in the late 1980s by Chomsky and Pollock. The collection testifies to the recent renewal of interest in questions of diachronic syntax, a consequence of the new emphasis on comparative issues in the principles and parameters framework. Languages studied in this volume include all the major
Romance and Germanic languages.
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: pbk ISBN 9780195086331
Description
The principles-and-parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount of work in comparative syntax over the last decade or so. A natural consequence of the growth in synchronic comparative work has been a renewed interest in questions of diachronic syntax, and this collection testifies to that trend. These papers focus on questions of clause structure which have become a central theme of theoretical work since the pioneering work in the late
1980s by Chomsky, Pollock, and others. The languages studied by an international roster of contributors include all the major Romance and Germanic languages. This volume should appeal not only to scholars of historical syntax, but also to those interested in language change, syntactic variation and
language variation as well.
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