The Emergence and Development of SVO Patterning in Latin and French - Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1995
First published:	March 1995
Authors:	Brigitte L.M. Bauer (Research Fellow)
Dimensions:	240 x 164 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	258
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-509103-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN:	0-19-509103-5
Barcode:	9780195091038

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