Clause structure and language change / edited by Adrian Battye, Ian Roberts.

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TextSeries: Oxford studies in comparative syntaxPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 369 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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1429406496
9781429406499
0195358791
9780195358797
9780195086324
0195086325
9780195086331
0195086333
9786610527175
6610527172

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Clause structure and language change.DDC classification:

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P297 .C55 1995eb

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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Summary: A collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure.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.

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

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A collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure.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.