Chapter 3.2.3 Syntactic Change
As you recognised, the word order in Present-Day English shows an SVO syntax. In the context of which syntactic change did the SVO has its breakthrough?
In connection with the loss of inflection after Late Modern English
In connection with the loss of inflection after Old English
In connection with the loss of inflection after Middle English
In connection with the loss of inflection after Early Modern English
What is the notion of free variation?
Situations in which language usage seems to allow several expression forms for the same content substance without any immediately apparent conditioning factors.
Situations in which language usage seems to not allow several expression forms for the same content substance without any immediately apparent conditioning factors.
Situations in which language usage seems to allow only two expression forms for the same content substance without any immediately apparent conditioning factors.
In the field of linguistics, syntactic change is the evolution of the syntactic structure of a natural language. It affects grammar in its...
Syntactic aspects
Phonological aspects
Semantic aspects
Morphological aspects
By which aspect is the subjunctive almost exclusively signalled?
By the absence of any derivational suffix.
By the absence of any inflectional suffix.
By the presence of any derivational suffix.
By the presence of any inflectional suffix.
Grammaticalisation explains how grammatical tructures arise by...
Lexical units gradually turning into grammatically functional morphemes.
A counterbalance to the tendency that the grammar of English as a whole loses the complexity it once was caracterised by.
A powerful agent of language change.
Grammaticalisation is...
Lexical units gradually turning into grammatically functional morphemes.
A counterbalance to the tendency that the grammar of English as a whole loses the complexity it once was caracterised by.
A powerful agent of language change.
Grammaticalisation can be seen as
Lexical units gradually turning into grammatically functional morphemes.
A counterbalance to the tendency that the grammar of English as a whole loses the complexity it once was caracterised by.
A powerful agent of language change.
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