Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Kristin Bech and Kristine Gunn Eide
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 213] 2014. vii, 421 pp.
Kristin Bech
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kristin Bech plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2014 Preverbal word order in Old English and Old French Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin and Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.), pp. 233–270 | Article
Old English (OE) and Old French (OF) are often referred to as verb-second (V2) languages. While it is the case that the verb may appear in second clause position after a non-subject-initial element in both languages, they are dissimilar in a number of features. In this paper, we consider the… read more
2014 Information structure and syntax in old Germanic and Romance languages Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin and Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2008 Verb types and word order in Old and Middle English non-coordinate and coordinate clauses English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Gotti, Maurizio, Marina Dossena and Richard Dury (eds.), pp. 49–67 | Article
This paper focuses on the relation between word order, verb types and clause types in Old and Middle English, with reference to the change of English from a language with a verb-second constraint to a verb-medial language. The word order patterns dicussed are the XVS, SVX and XSV patterns, and the… read more
2001 Are old English conjunct clauses really verb-final? Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999, Brinton, Laurel J. (ed.), pp. 49–62 | Article