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

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

This treatise argues that there has been an evolution in Romance syntax and morphology from left-branching structures (subject-object-verb) to right-branching structures (subject-verb-object). It uses data from child language acquisition studies to back up this claim.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bauer, Brigitte L. M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Word order.
Historical linguistics.
Typology (Linguistics)
Language acquisition.
Latin language > Word order.
Latin language > Grammar, Historical.
French language > Word order.
French language > Grammar, Historical.
Languages, Modern > Word order.
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