Word-order change as a source of grammaticalisation
By: Susann Fischer
Series: Linguistik aktuell = -- Linguistics today -- v. 157; Linguistik aktuell -- Bd. 157.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9789027255402; 9789027288189
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Different views on grammaticalisation and its relation to word-order; title: Historical overview of oblique subjects in Germanic and Romance; title: Historical overview of stylistic fronting in Germanic and Romance; title: Accounting for the differences and similarities between the languages under investigation; title: Explaining the changes: minimalism meets von Humboldt and Meillet; title: References.