Bauer tries to show that there has been an evolution in Romance syntax and morphology from left-branching structures (subject-object-verb) to right-branching structures (subject-verb-object). She uses data from child language acquisition studies to back up this claim. Num Pages: 272 pages, line drawings. BIC Classification: CFD; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576. . 1994. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Emergence and Development of SVO Patterning in Latin and French. Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives.
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195091035
ISBN 13: 9780195091038
Binding: Hardcover
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This book analyzes--in terms of branching--the pervasive reorganization of Latin syntactic and morphological structures: in the development from Latin to French, a shift can be observed from the archaic, left-branching structures (which Latin inherited from Proto-Indo-European) to modern right-branching equivalents. Brigitte Bauer presents a detailed analysis of this development based on the theoretical discussion and definition of "branching" and "head." Subsequently she relates the diachronic shift to psycholinguistic evidence, arguing that the difficulty of LB complex structures as reflected in their painstaking and delayed acquisition accounts for the extensive typological shift from left to right branching that took place in Latin/French and the other Indo-European languages.

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Brigitte L.M. Bauer is a research fellow for the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is currently affiliated with the University of Nijmegen.

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