Clause Structure and Language Change
1st Edition
Published on 12. January 1995
380 pages
978-0-19-535879-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Principles-and-Parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount of work in comparative syntax over the last decade or so. A natural consequence of the growth in synchronic comparative work has been a renewed interest in questions of diachronic syntax, and this collection testifies to that trend. These papers focus on questions of clause structure which have become a central theme of theoretical work since the pioneering work in the late 1980s by Chomsky, Pollock, and others. The languages studied by an international roster of contributors include all the major Romance and Germanic languages. This volume is of central importance for anyone working in theoretical, comparative, or historical syntax.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- PART ONE: The Diachrony of Verb Second
- 2. "Why UG Needs a Learning Theory: Triggering Verb Movement
- 3. "Two Types of Verb Second in the History of Yiddish
- 4. "The Locus of Verb Movement in Non-Asymmetric Verb-Second Languages: The Case of Middle French
- 5. "Evidence for a Verb-Second Phase in Old Portuguese
- 6. "Indo-European Origins of Germanic Syntax
- PART TWO: Verb Second and the Null-Subject Parameter
- 7. "On the Decline of Verb Movement to Comp in Old and Middle French
- 8. "The Loss of Verb Second in English and French
- 9. "Verb Second, Pro-drop, Functional Projections and Language Change
- 10. "Null Subjects in Verb-First Embedded Clauses in Philippe de Vigneulles' Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles
- PART THREE: Clitics and Verb Second
- 11. "The Diachronic Development of Subject Clitics in North Eastern Italian Dialects
- 12. "Complement Clitics in Medieval Romance: the Tobler-Mussafia Law
- 13. "Cases of Verb Third in Old High German
