The Emergence and Development of SVO Patterning in Latin and French: Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives - Hardcover

Bauer, Brigitte L. M.

 
9780195091038: The Emergence and Development of SVO Patterning in Latin and French: Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195091035 ISBN 13: 9780195091038
Publisher: OUP USA, 1995

Synopsis

This book analyses--in terms of branching--the pervasive reorganization of Latin syntactic and morphological structures: in the development from Latin to French, a shift can be observed from the archaic, left-branching structures (which Latin inherited from Proto-Indo-European) to modern right-branching equivalents. Brigitte Bauer presents a detailed analysis of this development based on the theoretical discussion and definition of "branching" and "head." Subsequently she relates the diachronic shift to psycholinguistic evidence, arguing that the difficuly of LB complex structures as reflected in their painstaking and delayed acquisition accounts for the extensive typological shift from left to right branching that took place in Latin/French and the other Indo-European languages. The author uses data from child language acquisition studies to support her thought-provoking claim.

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About the Author

Brigitte L.M. Bauer is a research fellow for the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is currently affiliated with the University of Nijmegen.

From the Back Cover

This book analyzes - in terms of branching - the pervasive reorganization of Latin syntactic and morphological structures: in the development from Latin to French, a shift can be observed from the archaic, left-branching structures (which Latin inherited from Proto-Indo-European) to modern right-branching equivalents. Brigitte L.M. Bauer presents a detailed analysis of this development based on the theoretical discussion and definition of "branching" and "head". Subsequently she relates the diachronic shift to psycholinguistic evidence, arguing that the difficulty of left-branching complex structures as reflected in their painstaking and delayed acquisition accounts for the extensive typological shift from left to right branching that took place in Latin/French and the other Indo-European languages. The author uses data from child language acquisition studies to support her thought-provoking claim.

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Publisher
OUP USA
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195091035
ISBN 13 
9780195091038
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
272