Object position and Heavy NP Shift in Old Saxon and beyond

Walkden, George

Object position and Heavy NP Shift in Old Saxon and beyond

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2014

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Information structure and syntactic change in Germanic and Romance languages / Bech, Kristin; Gunn Eide, Kristine (ed.). - Amsterdam : Benjamins, 2014. - (Linguistik aktuell ; 213). - pp. 313-340. - ISBN 978-90-272-5596-9

Abstract

This paper investigates the position of ‘heavy’ nominal objects in Old Saxon and other Germanic languages. A new empirical study of Old Saxon is carried out and regression analysis performed, with information status, grammatical weight and case all serving as predictors. On the theoretical side it is argued that an analysis in terms of movement to specifier positions in a low left periphery goes some of the way towards capturing the observed facts, but still suffers from certain problems.

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400 Philology, Linguistics

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WALKDEN, George, 2014. Object position and Heavy NP Shift in Old Saxon and beyond. In: BECH, Kristin, ed., Kristine GUNN EIDE, ed.. Information structure and syntactic change in Germanic and Romance languages. Amsterdam:Benjamins, pp. 313-340. ISBN 978-90-272-5596-9. Available under: doi: 10.1075/la.213.12wal

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@incollection{Walkden2014Objec-38612,
  year={2014},
  doi={10.1075/la.213.12wal},
  title={Object position and Heavy NP Shift in Old Saxon and beyond},
  number={213},
  isbn={978-90-272-5596-9},
  publisher={Benjamins},
  address={Amsterdam},
  series={Linguistik aktuell},
  booktitle={Information structure and syntactic change in Germanic and Romance languages},
  pages={313--340},
  editor={Bech, Kristin and Gunn Eide, Kristine},
  author={Walkden, George}
}

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