28.2113, Books: Why Jesus and Job spoke bad Welsh: Meelen

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Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 17:05:52
From: Martine Paulissen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Why Jesus and Job spoke bad Welsh: Meelen

 


Title: Why Jesus and Job spoke bad Welsh 
Subtitle: The origin and distribution of V2 orders in Middle Welsh 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/why-jesus-and-job-spoke-bad-welsh 


Author: Marieke Meelen

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932069 Pages: 397 Price: U.K. £ 39.00


Abstract:

This thesis covers a wide range of topics from historical to computational and
corpus linguistics as well as synchronic and diachronic syntax and information
structure. The latest insights in each of these sub-fields of linguistics are
necessary to address what has been a vexed problem in the study of Middle
Welsh for a long time. Middle Welsh word order is particularly puzzling,
because there is a wide range of verb-second patterns and the distribution of
those is not at all clear. Secondly, these so-called ‘Abnormal Orders’ are
only found in the Middle Welsh period; Old and Modern Welsh mainly exhibit
verb-initial patterns.

Verb-second orders are shown to have developed from earlier patterns with
hanging topics and focussed cleft constructions by carefully reconstructing
their syntactic history in Old Welsh and related Celtic languages. A detailed
analysis of a syntactically and pragmatically annotated corpus, built
especially for this thesis, reveals that a combination of these features
explains which word-order pattern appears in which particular context. From a
diachronic syntactic point of view, Middle Welsh shares some crucial
developments in the rise of V2 with Early Romance, but it differs in others.

By consistently examining both syntactic and information-structural features
of various verb-second patterns, this thesis not only provides a sound
methodology to investigate the interaction between information structure and
syntax in historical data, it also paves the way for future comparative
studies in diachronic syntax by providing detailed analyses of a large amount
of data from one of the lesser-studied verb-second languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Welsh (cym)


Written In: English  (eng)

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