The Emergence and Development of SVO Patterning in Latin and French

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Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives

Brigitte L. M. Bauer(Autor*in)

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Erschienen am 23. März 1995

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Intro
Contents
1. Introduction
1.1 Earlier Studies of Word Order
1.1.1 The Erosion Hypothesis
1.1.2 Erosion as the Cause of the Shift from SOV to SVO
1.1.3 The Emergence of Fixed Word Order and the Loss of Cases
1.2 Attempts at a Broader Approach
1.3 The Historical Value of Latin
1.4 The Advantages of an Analysis in Terms of Branching and the Definition of Head
1.5 The Nature of the Change and Its Explanation
1.6 Outline of the Present Work
2. The Definition of Head
2.1 Linguistic Typology
2.1.1 Typological Dichotomy
2.1.2 Typological Correlations
2.1.3 The Problem of Terminology
2.2 Typology and Diachronic Linguistics
2.2.1 An Attempt at a Definition
2.2.2 A New Attempt: The Notion of Branching
2.3 The Definition of Head
2.3.1 X-Bar Theory
2.3.2 The Identification of Head: Attempts Within the Framework of X-Bar Theory
2.3.3 The Definition of Elements According to X-Bar Theory
2.4 The Analysis in Terms of Branching
3. Diachronic Analysis: The Noun Phrase
3.1 The Genitive
3.1.1 The Place of the Genitive in PIE
3.1.2 The Genitive in Two Other Italic Languages: Oscan and Umbrian
3.1.3 Old Latin
3.1.4 From Old to Classical Latin
3.1.5 From Classical Latin to Vulgar Latin and Late Latin
3.1.6 Old French
3.1.7 Overview of the Development of the Genitive
3.2 The Adjective
3.2.1 PIE, Oscan, Umbrian, and Old Latin
3.2.2 From Old Latin Onward
3.2.3 Vulgar Latin and Late Latin
3.2.4 Old French
3.2.5 The End of the Middle Ages and Later
3.3 Determiners
3.3.1 Modern French Versus Early Indo-European Dialects
3.3.2 Latin: An Intermediary Stage?
3.3.3 Evidence from Turkish and Japanese
3.4 The Place of the Determiner, the Adjective, and the Genetive
4. Diachronic Analysis: The Verb Phrase
4.1 The Ummarked Place of the Verb and its Development
4.1.1 PIE
4.1.2 The Verb in Oscan, Umbrian, and Old Latin
4.1.3 From Old Latin Onward
4.2 The Marked Position of the Verb: The Initial Verb
4.2.1 Stylistic Motivation
4.2.2 Syntactic Motivation
4.2.3 The Use of the Initial Verb: Conclusion
4.3 The Medial Position of the Verb
4.3.1 The Elements that Follow the Medial Verb
4.3.2 Vulgar Latin and Late Latin
4.3.3 The Position of the Verb in Latin: Provisional Conclusion
4.4 The Copula
4.4.1 The Position of the Copula
4.4.2 The Emergence of the Preposed Auxiliary
4.5 The Position of the Verb in Old and Middle French
4.5.1 The Position of the Subject
4.5.2 SVO Order
4.5.3. SOV Order
4.5.4 VSO and OVS Orders
4.5.5 Interrogative Clauses
4.5.6 The Subject Pronoun
4.6 The Adverb
4.6.1 The Morphology of the Latin Adverb
4.6.2 The Position of the Adverb
4.7 Provisional Conclusion: The Verbal and Nominal Phrase
5. Diachronic Analysis: Early Right-Branching Structures
5.1 The Prepositional Phrase
5.1.1 The Creation of a Hierarchical Structure
5.1.2 The Shift Toward Right Branching
5.1.3 The Italic Languages: Residues of Former Postposing
5.1.4 Extension of the RB Prepositional Phrase
5.1.5 Conclusion
5.2 The Comparative Construction
5.2.1 The Morphology of the Comparative
5.2.2 The Term of Reference and Its Evolution
5.2.3 Conclusion
5.3 The Relative
5.3.1 The Original Structure: Correlation
5.3.2 The Creation of Right Branching
5.4 Conclusion
6. The Acquisition of Branching
6.1 Language Acquisition
6.2 The Acquisition of Basic Word Order
6.2.1 Japanese, an LB Language
6.2.2 Turkish, an LB Language
6.2.3 The Acquisition of Basic Word Order in Russian and Polish
6.2.4 The Acquisition of Basic Word Order in English and German
6.2.5 The Acquisition of the Strict RB Basic Word Order of French
6.2.6 The Acquisition of Basic Word Order: Conclusion
6.3 The Acquisition of LB Morphological Structures
6.3.1 The Acquisition of Inflection in Russian, Polish, and Latvian
6.3.2 Prepositional Phrases
6.3.3 The Acquisition of Inflection: Conclusion
6.3.4 The Acquisition of Turkish and Hungarian Agglutination, and Japanese Case Particles
6.3.5 Prepositional Phrases Versus Postpositions
6.4 Acquisition of Complex Structures
6.4.1 Typological Characteristics of the Relative
6.4.2 The Acquisition of RB Relative Clauses in English, French, German, and Polish
6.4.3 LB Complex Structures: Relative Clauses in Japanese, Korean, and Turkish
6.4.4 Data on the Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Synthesis
6.5 Conclusion: The Advantage of Right Branching
7. Conclusion
7.1 Diachronic Change and Language Acquisition
7.2 Left Branching and the Linguistic System
7.3 The Broader Perspective
References
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