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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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
