Cues and expressions
In special issue: Tromsø Working Papers in Language Acquisition A number of European languages have undergone a change from object-verb to verb-object order. We focus on the change in English and Icelandic, showing that while the structural change was the same, it took place at different times and d...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/268 2024-06-02T08:15:20+00:00 Cues and expressions Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir 2004 233298 bytes application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10037/268 eng eng Universitetet i Tromsø University of Tromsø Nordlyd 32.1(2004), pp 135-155 1503-8599 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/268 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_128 openAccess VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Allmenn språkvitenskap og fonetikk: 011 VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Nordiske språk: 018 VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Engelsk språk: 020 language acquisition language change grammar change cues Old Icelandic language information structure Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel 2004 ftunivtroemsoe 2024-05-07T08:40:37Z In special issue: Tromsø Working Papers in Language Acquisition A number of European languages have undergone a change from object-verb to verb-object order. We focus on the change in English and Icelandic, showing that while the structural change was the same, it took place at different times and different ways in the two languages, triggered by different E-language changes. As seen from the English viewpoint, low-level facts of inflection morphology may express the relevant cue for parameters, and so the loss of inflection may lead to a grammar change. This analysis does not carry over to Icelandic, as the loss of OV there took place despite rich case morphology. We aim to show how this can be explained within a cue-style approach, arguing for a universal set of cues. However, the relevant cue may be expressed differently among languages: While it may have been expressed through morphology in English, it as expressed through information structure in Icelandic. In both cases, external effects led to fewer expressions of the relevant (universal) cue and a grammar change took place. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tromsø University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Tromsø |
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In special issue: Tromsø Working Papers in Language Acquisition A number of European languages have undergone a change from object-verb to verb-object order. We focus on the change in English and Icelandic, showing that while the structural change was the same, it took place at different times and different ways in the two languages, triggered by different E-language changes. As seen from the English viewpoint, low-level facts of inflection morphology may express the relevant cue for parameters, and so the loss of inflection may lead to a grammar change. This analysis does not carry over to Icelandic, as the loss of OV there took place despite rich case morphology. We aim to show how this can be explained within a cue-style approach, arguing for a universal set of cues. However, the relevant cue may be expressed differently among languages: While it may have been expressed through morphology in English, it as expressed through information structure in Icelandic. In both cases, external effects led to fewer expressions of the relevant (universal) cue and a grammar change took place. |
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