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Peer reviewedMyhill, John – Language Variation and Change, 1992
In clauses with future meaning in Biblical Hebrew, there are consistent functional differences between clauses with verb-initial word order and clauses with non-verb-initial word order. Verb-initial clauses are associated with future events involving cooperation between the speaker, listener, and God. (16 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Hebrew, Language Usage
Peer reviewedTaylor, Ann – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Examines the distribution of clause types in ancient Greek during the Homeric (pre-800 B.C.) and Hellenistic (ca. 100 A.D.) periods, as well as an intermediate period (ca. 450 B.C.), delineating the evolution from a subject-object-verb (SOV) to a subject-verb-object (SVO) structure. (49 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Greek, Language Usage, Language Variation
Peer reviewedWasow, Thomas – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Discusses "end-weight," long, complex phrases that tend to come at the end of clauses. Corpus data on heavy noun phrase shift, the dative alternation, and particle movement indicate that there are several structural measures of weight highly correlated with constituent ordering. (38 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages), Language Variation
