Remnants Of The Old Order: Ov In The Paston Letters

Wurff, Wim van der

English Studies 2000 81 (6)6341
(ReLIS:jul:juljig:y:2000:v:81:i:6:p:6341)

Abstract:

Since the 1970s a considerable amount of work has been done on the shift from object-verb (OV) to verb-object (VO) order in the history of English. In Denison (1993) an entire chapter is devoted to a review of much of this work and since then contributions on this topic have continued to appear regularly (see for example Bernardez 1994; Kroch & Taylor 1994, 1998; Pintzuk 1996, 1998; Kiparsky 1996, 1997; Roberts 1997; and Ehala 1998). Much of all this work has been theoretical in that the reasons and route for the shift have been explored within various theoretical frameworks, such as functional sentence erspective, principles and parameter theory, minimalist theory and catastrophe theory. In virtually all these studies it is assumed, mainly on the basis of work by Canale (1978) and Bean (1983), that the shift to VO took place in the twelfth century.

Keywords: Inglés ; Historia ; Verbos
Pages: 6341
Volume: 81
Year: 2000
Issue: 6

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