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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"historical syntax"”.
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A GENERAL THEORY OF CORRELATIVITY
… to illuminate the syntactic behavior and historical evolution of correlativity. Synchronic analysis reveals that correlative constructions in these languages exhibit significant structural differences from modern correlatives (e.g., in Hindi), particularly in terms of headedness, clause …
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The Syntax of Relative Clauses and Related Phenomena in Proto-Indo-European
In this thesis, I reconstruct the syntax of relative clauses in Proto-Indo-European (PIE). Syntactic reconstruction, particularly in the case of PIE, has presented a perennial challenge to Comparative Philologists. I demonstrate that Minimalist reconstruction provides a viable methodology through …
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<sup>~</sup>° and /--: Their origins, their grammaticalization, and the process of encroachment of the former by the latter from a historical perspective
There has been controversy regarding the functional differences between the forms <sup>~</sup>° and /-- in Classical Chinese. Because of their similar usages, <sup>~</sup>° and /-- are often considered graphic variants. However, <sup>~</sup>° and /-- actually came from different origins in …
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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 …
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Zum Status relativähnlicher Sätze im Frühneuhochdeutschen
Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit den sogenannten relativähnlichen Sätzen im Frühneuhochdeutschen und leistet somit einen Beitrag zur Subordinationsforschung des älteren Deutsch. Relativähnliche Sätze sind formal durch ein satzinitiales anaphorisches d-Element und die Endstellung des finiten Verbs …