LINGUIST List 5.1199

Sun 30 Oct 1994

Qs: Word order, Discourse, Children's vocabulary, Adverbials

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1. Martin Weidner, Development of SOV -> SVO Languages
2. , Left Dislocation
3. , Children's vocabulary
4. Steven Schaufele, Q: history of negative adverbials in English

While German is still an SOV Language (means word order of Subject-Verb-Object)
 other languages like English or French have been SOV and changed
to SVO. I'd like to write a paper of the reasons for this development.
Does anybody know, if there are papers / books (especially in the background of
 generative grammar) concerning this problem

thanks and ciao

 Martin

|Martin Weidner |
|e-mail: mweidnerspinfo.uni-koeln.de |
|Linguistic Data Processing Cologne |

I'm looking for some material on the discourse function of Left Dislocation
in English. If anyone could help me with references where I can find this
information I'll appreciate it. You can even send your response directly to
me. Address: "00a0mbejeBSUVC.bsu.edu".

Thank you.

 Has anyone made a list of the English words an
average* six-year-old child in the US would recognize
in ordinary conversation? If so, who made the list, and
how might one gain access to it?

 *By using the word "average," I am suggesting that
the list would consist of the words that at least half of
some specified group of children could understand.

 Clint Hurley (churleyacuvax.acu.edu)

I'm interested in doing some research on the history of negative
adverbials in English, and possibly by extension other Northwestern
European languages, especially with regard to their syntactic behaviour.
Any bibliographical references anyone could supply me with that are
relevant to this issue would be very much appreciated.

Best,
Steven

Dr. Steven Schaufele
712 West Washington
Urbana, IL 61801
217-344-8240
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