Morphosyntactic Change in the History of the Mainland Scandinavian Languages |
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15th century adverbials agreement analysis assume c-command Chapter Chomsky cliticization Consider the following corpus definite NPs deflection Delsing diachronic dialects diplomatic letters discussed Early Modern Danish Early Modern Swedish embedded clauses embedded-clause word order exhibit Falk finite verb forms frequency of preverbal head-initial VP Holmberg and Platzack Hróarsdóttir 1999 hypothesis indicate inflectional paradigm language contact late 15th century leftward movement Lightfoot linguistic loss m-case Mainland Scandinavian languages Middle English Middle Norwegian MNw period Modern Icelandic Modern Norwegian morphological nominal non-finite verb non-pronominal objects NP-objects object movement Object Shift Old Swedish optional overt paradigm parameter setting particles phonological phrases Pintzuk postverbal PP-complements preverbal position pronominal objects pronouns provide evidence quantified scrambling Section sentences Spec-AgrOP structure Stylistic Fronting syntactic change syntax texts trigger types of complements variation verb movement verb raising verbal inflection Vfin Vmain word order pattern word-order patterns written language XV word order Yiddish