Object order and the Thematic Hierarchy in older German
- The relative order of dative and accusative objects in older German is less free than it is today. The reason for this could be that speakers of the direct predecessor of Old High German organized the referents according to the Thematic Hierarchy. If one applies a Case Hierarchy Nom>Acc>Dat to this, the order Nom - Dat - Acc falls out. It becomes apparent that the status of the Thematic Hierarchy is not a factor governing underlying word order, but a factor inducing scrambling. Arguments from binding theory, whose validity is discussed, indicate that the underlying order is ‘accusative before dative’
Author: | Augustin SpeyerGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-125719 |
ISBN: | 978-3-8233-6922-6 |
Parent Title (English): | Historical Corpora. Challenges and Perspectives |
Series (Serial Number): | Korpuslinguistik und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Sprache | Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language | CLIP (5) |
Publisher: | Narr |
Place of publication: | Tübingen |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2015 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2024/03/18 |
Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
GND Keyword: | Akkusativ; Althochdeutsch; Dativ; Korpus <Linguistik> |
First Page: | 101 |
Last Page: | 124 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
Open Access?: | ja |
BDSL-Classification: | Grammatik |
Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Grammatikforschung |
Linguistics-Classification: | Korpuslinguistik |
Licence (German): | Urheberrechtlich geschützt |