By Jan Terje Faarlund
The 11 chosen contributions making up this quantity take care of grammatical kin, their coding and behavioral homes, and the switch that those homes have passed through in numerous languages. the point of interest of this assortment is at the altering homes of matters and gadgets, even though the scope of the quantity is going past the valuable difficulties touching on case marking and be aware order. The diachrony of syntactic and morphosyntactic phenomena are approached from varied theoretical views, generative grammar, valency grammar, and functionalism. The languages handled comprise outdated English, Mainland Scandinavian, Icelandic, German and different Germanic languages, Latin, French and different Romance languages, Northeast Caucasian, Eskimo, and Popolocan. This ebook presents a chance to check assorted theoretical techniques to related phenomena in numerous languages and language families.
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E. their homonymic lexicals with a full semantics and a clear syntactic categorization — are reflected in the behavior of the positionally and clause-typically heavily constrained MPs. In pursuing this question, this general line of investigation will be restricted to the occurrence of MPs in imperative expressions (cf. Abraham 1995b, where a similar investigation was pursued restricted to interrogative contexts). The goal of this presentation is thus to show that, indeed, the occurrence of a number of MP-lexicals in imperative contexts as well the exclusion of other MP-lexicals is rooted in the behavior and meaning 37 38 Werner Abraham of the lexical homonyms in non-MP functions.
What matters is that zu/te are devoid of any lexical meaning (other than their prepositional homographs) and have attained functional Spec-status. The characterization in (26) is straightforward and an essential step in the direction of restricting paths and results of grammaticalization. e. its status as a NP- or clause conjunction, or as a focus particle, to name just two of several possibilities) either continue, or change, in the course of grammaticalization and, if they change, what the order and extent of such a change can be and whether limitations on change can be detected.
Nor is there any evidence in the general grammars of Middle High German about any change of the subcategorizing properties of modal verbs toward something like the finiteness parameter. Another question that needs to be asked is whether there are epistemic uses, next to deontic ones, in the early phases of German and closely related languages. See (29). We shall therefore look into the older stages of English and German. 1 Epistemic uses, next to deontic ones, in the early phases of German? Strikingly enough, there are no records to be found in Paul (1920) or Behaghel (1923).