Syntactic Change Welsh Study by Willis David (10 results)
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Condition: New. Scholars have often been puzzled by the fact that the basic word-order rule of Welsh seems to have changed twice in the last 1000 years. David Willis explores how and why these changes have taken place. He examines the relationship between the literary and spoken language throughout the history of Welsh and more. Num Pages: 320 pages, figures, tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 2AFW; CFF; CFK; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616. . 1998. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . .…
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Condition: New. Scholars have often been puzzled by the fact that the basic word-order rule of Welsh seems to have changed twice in the last 1000 years. David Willis explores how and why these changes have taken place. He examines the relationship between the literary and spoken language throughout the history of Welsh and more. Num Pages: 320 pages, figures, tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 2AFW; CFF; CFK; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616. . 1998. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…
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Condition: gut. 1999. Syntactic Change in Welsh: A Study of the Loss of Verb-Second. In englischer Sprache. pages.
Published by OXFORD UNIV PR., 1999
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Add to basket320 Seiten 16 x 24 Sehr gut, fast ungelesen. Name des Vorbesitzers auf dem Vorsatzblatt. ISBN: 9780198237594. 900 Gramm Sprache: Englisch. Karton mit Original Schutzumschlag.
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Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Welsh is often cited as an exemplary case of verb-initial language. While this is generally true of the language today, earlier written texts show widespread use of subject-initial, object-initial, and other word orders. David Willis challenges the conventional view that these orders were restricted to an artificial literary register, claiming instead that they were alive in spoken Welsh up until the Early Modern period. He looks at Middle Welsh word order within a Principles and Parameters framework, showing extensive parallelisms between Middle Welsh and verb-second systems in Germanic and Romance languages. He also provides rich documentation of syntactic change in Welsh, showing for the first time how the transition from the verb-second rule of Middle Welsh to the verb-initial system of Contemporary Welsh took place. He examines a case study of a verb-second system outside of the Germanic languages, investigates how such systems have come to be lost over time, and raises questions about the fundamental mechanisms of language change.…
