Word Order Change in Icelandic
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-01-23 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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While Modern Icelandic exhibits a virtually uniform VO order in the VP, Old(er) Icelandic had both VO order and OV order, as well as ‘mixed’ word order patt
Word-order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Susann Fischer
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Information Structure and Language Change
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Roland Hinterhölzl
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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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 wid
Word Order Change
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Ana Maria Martins
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and rel
The Derivation of VO and OV
Language: en
Pages: 386
Authors: Peter Svenonius
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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The Derivation of VO and OV takes a new look at the relationship between head-final or OV structures and head-initial or VO ones, in light of recent work by Ric