VO or OV: V to v or not to v
This article sketches a new analysis of the diachronic development found in many West Germanic languages from a hybrid VO-OV order to a rigid OV or VO order. The discussion departs from the discussions in Struik & Van Kemenade (2020/2022) and Struik & Schoenmakers (to appear) on the diachronic development of English/Dutch, which focus on the role of object shift and information structure. My interpretation of their data will be based on an earlier analysis of the Germanic OV and VO languages in Broekhuis (2008: §2.4; 2011). The main conclusions are the following. First, the change from... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Broekhuis , H 2022 , ' VO or OV: V to v or not to v ' , Linguistic Variation , vol. 23 , no. 2 , pp. 343-378 . https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.22005.bro |
Schlagwörter: | language change / Old English / Middle English / Middle Dutch / VO-OV order / information structure / object shift / verb movement |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28995091 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://pure.knaw.nl/portal/en/publications/0fb85ccd-2a3b-4b04-b119-586249ece148 |