Oliver Currie
List of John Benjamins publications for which Oliver Currie plays a role.
Articles
2013 Gradual change and continual variation: The history of a verb-initial construction in Welsh Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 43–78 | Article
This article contrasts two different analyses – a diachronic Construction Grammar (CxG) approach and the Principles & Parameters approach of Willis (1998) – of the development of a verb-initial construction, Absolute-initial verb (AIV) order, in Early Modern Welsh. The P&P approach attributes the… read more
2000 Word Order Stability and Change from a Sociolinguistic Perspective: The Case of Early Modern Welsh Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time, Sornicola, Rosanna, Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha-Halevy (eds.), pp. 203–230 | Chapter