Verner Egerland
Biographic Data
| ID | 1498721 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verner Egerland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Verner |
| FAMILY NAME | Egerland |
| SIGNATURE | EGERLAND V |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Architecture of Topic
This volume contains innovative papers that target the linguistic status of topic at the interface between grammar and discourse. The purpose of the volume is to discuss the universal properties of topics and, at the same time, to document the range of discourse-semantic and grammatical variation within this phenomenon in European languages. The volume is structured accordingly: (i) theoretical foundations of topicality in grammar and discourse; …
Fronting, background, focus
Diachronic change and pronoun status
From a historical perspective, personal pronouns in Romance languages display a tendency to undergo changes in syntactic status in a particular order, namely; strong > weak > clitic. This article discusses the possible reasons behind the final step of this sequence of development, that is, that from a weak form to clitic status. It will be argued that the external trigger for this kind of diachronic change has to be a morphophonological one; if a…
Diachronic change and pronoun status
From a historical perspective, personal pronouns in Romance languages display a tendency to undergo changes in syntactic status in a particular order, namely; strong > weak > clitic. This article discusses the possible reasons behind the final step of this sequence of development, that is, that from a weak form to clitic status. It will be argued that the external trigger for this kind of diachronic change has to be a morphophonological one; if a…
Fronting, background, focus
Architecture of Topic
This volume contains innovative papers that target the linguistic status of topic at the interface between grammar and discourse. The purpose of the volume is to discuss the universal properties of topics and, at the same time, to document the range of discourse-semantic and grammatical variation within this phenomenon in European languages. The volume is structured accordingly: (i) theoretical foundations of topicality in grammar and discourse; …
Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Architecture (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work)