Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Kristin Bech and Kristine Gunn Eide
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 213] 2014. vii, 421 pp.
Kristine Gunn Eide
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kristine Gunn Eide plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2018 Chapter 7. Postverbal subjects of unaccusative verbs in the history of Portuguese Studies in Historical Ibero-Romance Morpho-Syntax, Bouzouita, Miriam, Ioanna Sitaridou and Enrique Pato (eds.), pp. 149–172 | Chapter
In this paper, I trace a word order change from Old Portuguese (OP) to Modern European Portuguese (MEP) that affected subjects of unaccusative verbs and argue that these subjects lost their object-like position along two different paths: subjects that contain old information follow the same… read more
2014 Information structure and syntax in old Germanic and Romance languages Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin and Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2014 Contrastivity and information structure in the old Ibero-Romance languages Information Structure and Syntactic Change in Germanic and Romance Languages, Bech, Kristin and Kristine Gunn Eide (eds.), pp. 377–412 | Article
In this article, we discuss how contrastivity can be identified in historical texts where we have no direct access to prosodic features such as stress and intonation. We depart from our knowledge of contrastivity in the modern languages and their exponence in Modern Spanish and Portuguese, where… read more
2013 The case of unaccusatives in Classical Portuguese Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs, Josephson, Folke and Ingmar Söhrman (eds.), pp. 411–424 | Article
The single argument of unaccusative verbs has gone from being predominantly postverbal in Classical (16th century) Portuguese to being predominantly preverbal in Modern Portuguese. While Portuguese has no morphological case marking, we find that the position immediately before the verb is becoming… read more