Phrase Structures in Competition: Variation and Change in Old English Word Order

by Pintzuk,Susan

• ISBN13: 9780815332695
• ISBN10: 0815332696
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book investigates variation and change in Old English word order, with special emphasis on the position of the verb.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
List of Figures	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 3
Theories of syntactic change	p. 3
Basic theoretical background	p. 11
Goals, assumptions, and organization	p. 13
Terminological conventions	p. 16
Previous Analyses	p. 19
Van Kemenade 1987	p. 20
Kiparsky 1995	p. 36
The Position of the Verb in Old English	p. 41
The position of the finite verb	p. 41
The position of the non-finite verb: the underlying order of verbs and their complements	p. 99
Summary and conclusions	p. 118
Cliticization	p. 125
The data	p. 128
The clitic analysis of van Kemenade 1987	p. 147
Clitics as phrasal affixes	p. 172
Summary	p. 203
Variation and Change in the Underlying Position of INFL	p. 193
The database	p. 194
The basic pattern	p. 207
The constant rate hypothesis	p. 209
Statistical techniques: VARBRUL	p. 212
Change in the underlying position of INFL over time	p. 220
Other factors influencing the underlying position of INFL	p. 224
Summary and conclusions	p. 235
Middle English changes	p. 241
The loss of INFL-final phrase structure	p. 243
The loss of OV phrase structure	p. 244
The loss of verb seconding	p. 246
Constraints on verb movement to COMP	p. 248
Summary and conclusions	p. 249
Appendices	p. 251
Abbreviations and Short Titles	p. 251
Notes on the Primary Sources	p. 254
Divisions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript A	p. 256
Bibliography	p. 257
Index	p. 269
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