... polysynthetic languages, to future research. Crucially, Roberts's hierarchy, like Baker's Polysynthesis Parameter, seems to allow only two choices: polysynthetic/non-polysynthetic. Mattissen's discussion earlier in this chapter suggests ...
Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax
... history of English ( Lightfoot 1979 ; Roberts 1985 ; Roberts and Roussou 2003 , i.a. ) ... example , in the historical record we see that in OE and into ME these ... example from OE with the premodal sceolde ( currently shall ) taking a direct ...
... noun phrase, and what properties each of these is expected to exhibit. Otherwise, some other explanation is needed to account for the restriction of dip to determinate nouns only. The identification of different types of classification ...
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