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Replication Data for: "The loss of Latin OV: Steps towards an analysis" |
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doi:10.18710/VWDJ1Y |
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2017-05-17 |
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Danckaert, Lieven, 2017, "Replication Data for: "The loss of Latin OV: Steps towards an analysis"", https://doi.org/10.18710/VWDJ1Y, DataverseNO, V1 |
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Replication Data for: "The loss of Latin OV: Steps towards an analysis" |
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doi:10.18710/VWDJ1Y |
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Danckaert, Lieven (University of Lille) |
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University of Lille |
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2017-05-17 |
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The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) |
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Danckaert, Lieven |
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Danckaert, Lieven |
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2017-05-17 |
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https://doi.org/10.18710/VWDJ1Y |
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Arts and Humanities, Syntax, Word order, Language change, Object placement, Latin |
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In this paper I offer a first attempt to analyse the loss of OV word orders in Latin/Romance. Assuming Yang's (2000, 2002) variational acquisition model of language change, I suggest that the eventual decline of the OV grammar can be traced back to an independent change in the grammar of Latin, namely one concerning the way in which the clausal EPP requirement is satisfied (Danckaert 2017). The crucial Late Latin innovation is argued to be the development of optional A-movement for subjects: as an indirect result of this, in the Late Latin period the VO grammar is more robustly cued than the OV grammar, despite the fact that the overall frequency of the order VO remains more or less constant over time (and in certain environments even decreases). Given this result, Yang’s model correctly predicts the VO order to oust the competing OV pattern. I also show that the rate of object extraposition (which yields linear VO sequences) remains fairly stable during the lifespan of the Latin language, which suggests that this phenomenon is unrelated to the spread of the VO order. Finally, the rate of object shift (i.e. a non-local type of OV) can in fact be shown to increase over time. This development too is suggested to be related to the new setting of the EPP parameter and the novel patterns of subject placement that follow from it. |
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Danckaert, Lieven. 2017. The loss of Latin OV: Steps towards an analysis. In: Aboh, Enoch O., Eric Haeberli, Genoveva Puskás & Manuela Schönenberger (eds.), Elements of comparative syntax: theory and description (= Studies in Generative Grammar 127). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 401-446. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504037-015 |
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10.1515/9781501504037-015 |
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Danckaert, Lieven. 2017. The loss of Latin OV: Steps towards an analysis. In: Aboh, Enoch O., Eric Haeberli, Genoveva Puskás & Manuela Schönenberger (eds.), Elements of comparative syntax: theory and description (= Studies in Generative Grammar 127). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 401-446. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501504037-015 |
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