VO or OV

V tovor not tov

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4870197
AutoresHans Broekhuis (Meertens Institute, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen23
Número2
Páginas343-378
Fecha de publicación2023-10-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistic Variation (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2211-6834 • E-ISSN: 2211-6842
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/lv.22005.bro
OpenAlexW4310170832
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas28

This article sketches a new analysis of the diachronic development found in many West Germanic languages from a hybrid VO-OV order to a rigid OV or VO order. The discussion departs from the discussions in Struik & Van Kemenade (2020/2022) andStruik & Schoenmakers (to appear)on the diachronic development of English/Dutch, which focus on the role of object shift and information structure. My interpretation of their data will be based on an earlier analysis of the Germanic OV and VO languages in Broekhuis (2008: § 2.4;2011). The main conclusions are the following. First, the change from the historical hybrid VO-OV systems to the rigid OV and VO systems of the present-day languages is due to changing the "setting" [±V-to-v] to the more categorical ones [−V-to-v] or [+V-to-v]. Second, the role of object shift in the diachronic development is modest; it is not involved in the development of the OV-languages at all and involves only the (partial) loss of object shift in the VO-languages (contra Struik et al.). Third, the encoding of the information-structuralnew-givendistinction remains constant in that the interpretation of (un)scrambled nominal objects does not change over time (contra Struik & Schoenmakers

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