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Download full textPintzuk, Susan – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
An alternative account of the Old English verb-complement word order and the change from OV to VO is offered, based on an analysis of 16 Old English texts. Evidence is provided that the change does not involve abrupt reanalysis but rather synchronic competition between two grammars, beginning in the Old English period and continuing into Middle…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Influences
Hume, Elizabeth, Ed.; And Others – Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995
Papers in comparative and historical linguistics are presented. "The Independent Development of Mid Tone in Suma" (Mary Bradshaw) extends earlier research on tone change in Gbaya languages to Suma, a Gbaya language previously not included. "Diachronic Morphology: An Overview" (Brian Joseph) reviews diachronic morphological…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, English
Koch, Monica – 1974
This paper addresses itself to the question of why the English language should have levelled almost all of its inflections, and what the relationship is between the breakdown of the case system and the rise of fixed word-order, prepositional phrases, and verb periphrases. The explanation proposed for the phenomenon of syntactic drift is considered…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English
