Syntactic Change In Germanic
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Author |
: Kate Burridge |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 1993-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027277022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027277028 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Syntactic Change in Germanic by : Kate Burridge
This study examines certain features of Dutch syntax between approximately 1300 and 1650. Of central importance are the overall developments in the word order patterning and the various changes they entail elsewhere in the grammar, such as in the negative construction. After an introductory chapter providing goals and background for the study, the quantitative analysis of the data is presented in Chapter 2. Considerable attention is paid to contextual considerations and the pragmatic aspect of word order. Chapter 3 deals specifically with the question of exbraciation; Chapter 4 returns to the functional aspect of word order and discusses the importance of the notion 'topic'. Chapter 5 provides a detailed analysis of the development of negation supported by comparative data from related Germanic languages and in a wider context of overall typological change. The concluding chapter discusses possible explanations of the findings. Two Appendices are added to the book, one providing a sketch grammar of Dutch, the other an annotated list of the corpus used. This study is purposefully eclectic in its approach, drawing upon many different traditions and areas in linguistics. This multifaceted approach is a major strength of the book, which moreover makes an important contribution to theoretical issues by presenting a vast descriptive data base for Dutch.
Author |
: Kate Burridge |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9027235899 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789027235893 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Syntactic Change in Germanic by : Kate Burridge
Author |
: Kate Burridge |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 1993-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027235893 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027235899 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Syntactic Change in Germanic by : Kate Burridge
This study examines certain features of Dutch syntax between approximately 1300 and 1650. Of central importance are the overall developments in the word order patterning and the various changes they entail elsewhere in the grammar, such as in the negative construction. After an introductory chapter providing goals and background for the study, the quantitative analysis of the data is presented in Chapter 2. Considerable attention is paid to contextual considerations and the pragmatic aspect of word order. Chapter 3 deals specifically with the question of exbraciation; Chapter 4 returns to the functional aspect of word order and discusses the importance of the notion 'topic'. Chapter 5 provides a detailed analysis of the development of negation supported by comparative data from related Germanic languages and in a wider context of overall typological change. The concluding chapter discusses possible explanations of the findings. Two Appendices are added to the book, one providing a sketch grammar of Dutch, the other an annotated list of the corpus used. This study is purposefully eclectic in its approach, drawing upon many different traditions and areas in linguistics. This multifaceted approach is a major strength of the book, which moreover makes an important contribution to theoretical issues by presenting a vast descriptive data base for Dutch.
Author |
: Jan T. Faarlund |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2011-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110854947 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110854945 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Syntactic Change by : Jan T. Faarlund
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
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Total Pages |
: 848 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:940257399 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Some Aspects of Syntactic Change in Germanic by :
Author |
: Roland Hinterhölzl |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110205916 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110205912 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Information Structure and Language Change by : Roland Hinterhölzl
The volume presents new approaches to explaining word order variation and change in the Germanic languages and thus relates to one of the most prominent and widely discussed topics in the theory of language change and diachronic syntax. The novelty of our approach consists in three main points. First of all, we aim at describing functional variety in the field of word order and verb placement in the early Germanic languages not as a result of language contact, but rather as a language-internal phenomenon related to stylistic and grammatical conditions in information packaging. Second, given that information structure is not directly accessible in texts from historical corpora that are available only in written form and bear no or little information on prosody and intonation, it presents various methods of retrieving information-structural categories in such texts. Third, it presents empirical studies on the relation between word order and information structure of the four main texts of the Old High German period and embeds these results in the wider picture of word order change in Germanic. The volume will be of interest to students of German, English, and general linguistics as well as to researchers interested in diachronic syntax, philology of Older German, language change, information structure, discourse semantics, language typology, computational linguistics, and corpus studies.
Author |
: Kristin Bech |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 431 |
Release |
: 2014-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027270467 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027270465 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages by : Kristin Bech
The contributions of this volume offer new perspectives on the relation between syntax and information structure in the history of Germanic and Romance languages, focusing on English, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, and both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. In addition to discussing changes in individual languages along the syntax–information structure axis, the volume also makes a point of comparing and contrasting different languages with respect to the interplay between syntax and information structure. Since the creation of increasingly sophisticated annotated corpora of historical texts is on the agenda in many research environments, methods and schemes for information structure annotation and analysis of historical texts from a theoretical and applied perspective are discussed.
Author |
: Kristin Bech |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9027255962 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789027255969 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages by : Kristin Bech
In this article, we discuss how contrastivity can be identified in historical texts where we have no direct access to prosodic features such as stress and intonation. We depart from our knowledge of contrastivity in the modern languages and their exponence in Modern Spanish and Portuguese, where both word order and prosody play a role in expressing contrast, and compare the analysis of the modern languages to our data of Old Spanish and Old Portuguese. Our findings indicate that very little has changed with regard to the expression of contrastivity through word order. Therefore, any word order.
Author |
: Peter Ackema |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 435 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027255747 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027255741 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Comparative Germanic Syntax by : Peter Ackema
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of Germanic languages. Among the theoretical and empirical issues explored are various ellipsis phenomena, the internal structure of the DP, the syntax-morphology interface, the syntax-semantics interface, Binding Theory, various diachronic developments, and 'do-support'-type phenomena. This book is of interest to syntacticians with an interest in theoretical, comparative and/or diachronic work, as well as to morphologists and semanticists interested in the connections their fields have with syntax. It will also be of interest to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in linguistic disciplines.
Author |
: George Walkden |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2014-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191021107 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191021105 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Syntactic Reconstruction and Proto-Germanic by : George Walkden
This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including verb position in main clauses, the syntax of the wh-system, and the (non-)occurrence of null pronominal subjects and objects. Although previous studies have looked at the lexical and phonological reconstruction of Proto-Germanic, little is currently known about the syntax of the language, and it has even been argued that the reconstruction of syntax is impossible. Dr Walkden uses extensive evidence from the early Germanic languages - Old English, Old High German, Old Saxon, Old Norse, and Gothic - to show that syntactic reconstruction is not only possible but also profitable. He argues that while the reconstruction of syntax differs from lexical-phonological reconstruction due to the so-called 'correspondence problem', this is not insurmountable. In fact, the approach taken in current Minimalist theories, in which syntactic variation is attributed to the properties of lexical items, opens the door for syntactic reconstruction as lexical reconstruction. The book also discusses practical solutions for circumventing the correspondence problem, in particular the use of both distributional properties of lexical items and the phonological forms of such items in order to establish cognacy. The book will be of interest to historical linguists working on syntactic reconstruction and the Germanic languages, from graduate level upwards, as well as to advanced students of syntactic change more generally.