Word-order change as a source of grammaticalisation
By: Susann Fischer.
Series: Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today -- v. 157
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027255402; 9789027288189
Subjects: Language and languages -- Word order; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word order; Languages, Modern -- Word order
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Different views on grammaticalisation and its relation to word-order; title: 3. Historical overview of oblique subjects in Germanic and Romance; title: 4. Historical overview of stylistic fronting in Germanic and Romance; title: 5. Accounting for the differences and similarities between the languages under investigation; title: 6. Explaining the changes: minimalism meets von Humboldt and Meillet; title: References.