Summary Details
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Sum: Eng.Complementizer
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| Author: | Neil Salmond | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Historical Linguistics
Syntax |
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| Summary: |
Thanks for my many helpers. Here's some of what they said: Arne Martinus Lindstad <arnel@ilf.uio.no> >>> There is a new book out by Peter W. Culicover "Syntactic Nuts" (Oxford University Press 1999), where he among other things discusses the syntactic category of certain complementisers and/or prepositions. <<< Anthea Fraser Gupta <a.f.gupta@leeds.ac.uk> >>> In many languages they [complementizers] are drawn from other, more basic word classes. (snip) In the Indo-European languages in general the interrogative words tend to be used as complementizers. (snip) In Old-English (as in other IE languages) there was a link between pronouns and demonstratives. In OE many conjunctions were made up of combinations of prepositions and demonstratives. A good book to read on the history of English in general is the one by Pyles & Algeo, which also has an accompanying workbook that explores some of these issues. <<< William Morris <wmorris@cs.ucsd.edu> >>> I highly recommend the following paper: Dan Jackson (1998) The historical origins of the that-trace effect. (0.9Megs) To appear in Linguistic Notes from La Jolla, UCSD. http://ling.ucsd.edu/~jackson/ <<< Elly VanGeldern? <ellyvangelderen@asu.edu> >>> Complementizers typically derive (grammaticalize) from determiners and prepositions. <<< Thanks again and have a very merry Christmas! - Neil |
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| LL Issue: | 10.1838 | |
| Date Posted: | 01-Dec-1999 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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