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 powerful agent of language change.

A counterbalance to the tendency that the grammar of English as a whole loses the complexity it once was caracterised by.

Grammaticalisation is...

Lexical units gradually turning into grammatically functional morphemes.

A powerful agent of language change.

A counterbalance to the tendency that the grammar of English as a whole loses the complexity it once was caracterised by.

Grammaticalisation can be seen as

Lexical units gradually turning into grammatically functional morphemes.

A powerful agent of language change.

A counterbalance to the tendency that the grammar of English as a whole loses the complexity it once was caracterised by.

Chapter 3.2.3 Syntactic Change

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