The Emergence and Development of Svo Patterning in Latin and French: Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives

Bauer, Brigitte L. M.

ISBN 10: 0195091035 / ISBN 13: 9780195091038

Published by Oxford Univ Pr, Oxford, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Emergence and Development of Svo Patterning in Latin and French: Diachronic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195091035
• ISBN 13: 9780195091038
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Linguistics, Reference, Social Sciences

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.