Diachronic Development in Isolation: The Loss of V2 Phenomena in Cimbrian

Bidese, Ermenegildo and Tomaselli, Alessandra (2007) Diachronic Development in Isolation: The Loss of V2 Phenomena in Cimbrian. In «Linguistische Berichte», vol. 2007, n. 210 Helmut Buske Verlag, pp. 209-228. ISBN 0024-3930

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    Abstract

    This paper deals with the syntactic development of Cimbrian, a German dialect, which was spoken for centuries in some enclaves in northern Italy. In particular, we argue that the ‘dismantlement’ of the V2 phenomenon is connected with a change concerning the ‘nature’ of specific word order patterns: from ‘allowed’ V2 exceptions to ‘unmarked’ and frequent constructions, i.e., from hanging topic (freies Thema) in WH clause to ‘new’ left dislocation modalities, which finally bring to generalized V3 in the declarative clause.

    Item Type: Article in journal
    Department or Research center: Literary, language and philological studies
    Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics (General) > P0121 Linguistics
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Linguistics - Cimbrian - Diachrony
    Repository staff approval on: 05 Mar 2010

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