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Title Studies in Brythonic word order / edited by James Fife, Erich Poppe.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 370 pages).
Dialects language
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Series Current issues in linguistic theory ; 83
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 83.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents STUDIES IN BRYTHONIC WORD ORDER; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction -- Word Order in Brythonic; On the Prehistory of Brittonic Syntax; Further Notes on Constituent Order in Welsh; Focus and the Welsh 'Abnormal Sentence': A Cross-linguistic Perspective; Word Order in Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys: Notes on the Pragmatics of Constituent-Ordering in MW Narrative Prose; Notes on Word Order in Beunans Meriasek; Some Constituent-order Frequencies in Classical Welsh Prose; The Discourse Pragmatics of NP-Initial Sentences in Breton.
The Directionality of Head Subcategorization in WelshThe Function of Cleft and Non-cleft Constituent Orders in Modern Welsh; Subject Index.
Summary While Celtic languages are nominally VSO in basic word order, the languages of the Brythonic branch have exhibited striking synchronic and historical variations from the prototype. This volume comprises the very latest research in word order in Welsh, reton and Cornish from nine of the leading scholars in the field. The studies deal with historical, typological and descriptive issues from several approaches (including philological, functional and government and binding). The scope ranges over all the Brythonic languages, as well as the entire diachronic spectrum from the proto-language up to t.
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Subject Brythonic languages -- Word order.
Brythonic languages.
Brythonic languages -- Dialects -- England -- West Country.
England.
England -- West Country.
West Country (England) -- Languages.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Fife, James.
Poppe, Erich.
Other Form: Print version: Fife, James. Studies in Brythonic Word Order. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©1991 9789027235800
ISBN 9789027277879 (electronic book)
9027277877 (electronic book)
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9781283313384