Word-order change as a source of grammaticalisation:
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Main Author: Fischer, Susann 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. © 2010
Series:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 157
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Introduction -- Different views on grammaticalisation and its relation to word-order -- Historical overview of oblique subjects in Germanic and Romance -- Historical overview of stylistic fronting in Germanic and Romance -- Accounting for the differences and similarities between the languages under investigation -- Explaining the changes: minimalism meets von Humboldt and Meillet -- References
This book presents a new perspective on the interaction between word-order and grammaticalisation by investigating the changes that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have undergone in Romance (Catalan, French, Spanish) as compared to Germanic (English, Icelandic). It discusses a great deal of historical comparative data showing that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have (had) a semantic effect in the Germanic and in the Romance languages, and that they both appear in the same functional category. The loss of stylistic fronting and oblique subjects is seen as an effect of grammatic
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 200 pages)
ISBN:9027255407
9027288186
9789027255402
9789027288189

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