Syntactic Reconstruction And Proto Germanic
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Author | : George Walkden |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0198712294 |
This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including verb position in main clauses, the syntax of the wh-system, and the (non-)occurrence of null pronominal subjects and objects. Although previous studies have looked at the lexical and phonological reconstruction of Proto-Germanic, little is currently known about the syntax of the language, and it has even been argued that the reconstruction of syntax is impossible. Dr Walkden uses extensive evidence from the early Germanic languages - Old English, Old High German, Old Saxon, Old Norse, and Gothic - to show that syntactic reconstruction is not only possible but also profitable. He argues that while the reconstruction of syntax differs from lexical-phonological reconstruction due to the so-called 'correspondence problem', this is not insurmountable. In fact, the approach taken in current Minimalist theories, in which syntactic variation is attributed to the properties of lexical items, opens the door for syntactic reconstruction as lexical reconstruction. The book also discusses practical solutions for circumventing the correspondence problem, in particular the use of both distributional properties of lexical items and the phonological forms of such items in order to establish cognacy. The book will be of interest to historical linguists working on syntactic reconstruction and the Germanic languages, from graduate level upwards, as well as to advanced students of syntactic change more generally.
Author | : George Lee Walkden |
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Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : George Walkden |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2014-08-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191021105 |
This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including verb position in main clauses, the syntax of the wh-system, and the (non-)occurrence of null pronominal subjects and objects. Although previous studies have looked at the lexical and phonological reconstruction of Proto-Germanic, little is currently known about the syntax of the language, and it has even been argued that the reconstruction of syntax is impossible. Dr Walkden uses extensive evidence from the early Germanic languages - Old English, Old High German, Old Saxon, Old Norse, and Gothic - to show that syntactic reconstruction is not only possible but also profitable. He argues that while the reconstruction of syntax differs from lexical-phonological reconstruction due to the so-called 'correspondence problem', this is not insurmountable. In fact, the approach taken in current Minimalist theories, in which syntactic variation is attributed to the properties of lexical items, opens the door for syntactic reconstruction as lexical reconstruction. The book also discusses practical solutions for circumventing the correspondence problem, in particular the use of both distributional properties of lexical items and the phonological forms of such items in order to establish cognacy. The book will be of interest to historical linguists working on syntactic reconstruction and the Germanic languages, from graduate level upwards, as well as to advanced students of syntactic change more generally.
Author | : George Walkden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Germanic languages |
ISBN | : 9780191780837 |
Walkden investigates methods, possibilities, and limitations in the reconstruction of syntax in a framework which holds that the object of enquiry is knowledge of language and which acknowledges that the transmission of that knowledge is discontinuous.
Author | : Frans van Coetsem |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2011-06-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3111549046 |
Toward a Grammar of Proto-Germanic.
Author | : Kate Burridge |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027277028 |
This study examines certain features of Dutch syntax between approximately 1300 and 1650. Of central importance are the overall developments in the word order patterning and the various changes they entail elsewhere in the grammar, such as in the negative construction. After an introductory chapter providing goals and background for the study, the quantitative analysis of the data is presented in Chapter 2. Considerable attention is paid to contextual considerations and the pragmatic aspect of word order. Chapter 3 deals specifically with the question of exbraciation; Chapter 4 returns to the functional aspect of word order and discusses the importance of the notion 'topic'. Chapter 5 provides a detailed analysis of the development of negation supported by comparative data from related Germanic languages and in a wider context of overall typological change. The concluding chapter discusses possible explanations of the findings. Two Appendices are added to the book, one providing a sketch grammar of Dutch, the other an annotated list of the corpus used. This study is purposefully eclectic in its approach, drawing upon many different traditions and areas in linguistics. This multifaceted approach is a major strength of the book, which moreover makes an important contribution to theoretical issues by presenting a vast descriptive data base for Dutch.
Author | : Charles M. Barrack |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2018-03-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110873516 |
Author | : Jóhanna Barðdal |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2023-09-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3111078078 |
Pulling together the threads of forty years of research on oblique subjects in the Germanic languages, this book introduces a novel approach to grammatical relations, based on a definition of subject as the first argument of the argument structure. New data are presented from Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old Swedish and Old Danish, as well as from Icelandic, Faroese and German. This includes alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat predicates, where either argument, the dative or the nominative, takes on subject behavior. The subject concept is modeled with the formalism of Construction Grammar, both synchronically and for the purpose of reconstructing grammatical relations for Proto-Germanic.
Author | : Gisella Ferraresi |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027248184 |
This is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in the field of syntactic reconstruction. It treats a range of topics which are representative of current debates in historical syntax. The novelty and merit of the present book is, the editors believe, that, in contrast to most previous work on diachronic syntax, it combines the perspectives of the traditional philological research on syntactic reconstruction with the insights of modern syntactic theory, as it is emphasised in the Foreword by Giuseppe Longobardi. The volume includes articles by well-recognized researchers in historical linguistics with a focus on syntactic change. In the present volume syntactic reconstruction is discussed from a variety of angles, including historical linguistics, phenomena of language contact, generative approaches as well as typological and variationist research. In the articles, languages from a diverse range of families are discussed, including Indo-European, North and South Caucasian, Sino-Tibetan, and Turkic.
Author | : Paul J. Hopper |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2017-12-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110879085 |