Verbs and Diachronic Syntax : a Comparative History of English and French /

This book analyses the development of a number of English and French constructions involving various kinds of subject-verb inversion. The analysis is framed in terms of the principles-and-parameters approach to syntactic theory, and provides strong support for the adoption of this approach in the de...

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Main Author: Roberts, Ian
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1993.
Series:Studies in natural language and linguistic theory ; 28.
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