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The Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax of the English Verb-Particle Combination
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Syntaktisk variation och förändring : En studie av subjektslösa satser i fornsvenska
… and a theoretical background to the research on diachronic syntax is given. Furthermore, a brief overview presents the main trends in scientific work in this area, in which two main directions crystallize: on the one hand theories that have related subject omission to morphological factors and on …
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Cycles of agreement: Romance clitics in diachrony
In this dissertation I investigate two linguistic cycles in Romance per van Gelderen’s (2011) framework: the Subject Agreement Cycle (SAC) and the Object Agreement Cycle (OAC). These grammaticalization cycles turn pronouns into agreement morphology on the verb. Both cycles are comprised of three …
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Evidence from innovation: Reconstructing disharmonic headedness for Proto-Indo-European
… of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) clausal syntax; specifically, I argue that PIE was left-headed in the CP domain and right-headed in the TP domain, and provide additional evidence that PIE was right-headed within VP as well. The novelty of my approach compared to those of my predecessors …