Lability and the rigidification of word order: evidence from Early Middle English
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Abstract This article analyzes quantitatively the effect of five linguistic features on position object in Early Middle English. Four them have long been explored literature: type, length, clause type and verbal cluster (±auxiliary). The fifth feature, labilty, has so far given less attention. Lability is possibility that a verb alternates between an unaccusative transitive frame without morphological coding. makes lability instance syncretism. study tests hypothesis that, for disambiguation purposes, labile verbs show more consistent word order (VO this case) than non-labile transitives. If confirmed, would point to non-trivial connection increase move towards fixed Such gone unnoticed existing literature, which, as influence syncretism concerned, focused almost exclusively loss case marking. A total 961 clauses with were tagged above-mentioned variables. Their choice VO OV measured using statistical analysis. conclusion significant predictor period under scrutiny, thus spearheading shift stable pattern (VO) correlation rigidification demonstrated English may be relevant studies from multiple perspectives: language-specific, typological, synchronic diachronic.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Linguistics
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2355-2069', '2656-5765']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0036