The Morphological Trigger of V-to-T: The Case of Old English

The Morphological Trigger of V-to-T: The Case of Old English

This paper deals with the phenomenon of V-to-T movement, which is one of the major parameters differentiating Romance from the majority of modern Germanic languages, and it defends the idea that rich morphology is the cause or trigger of V-to-T: in Romance, in a modern Germanic language like Iceland...

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Main Author: Castillo Concha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-03-01
Series:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
Subjects:
v-to-t movement
romance
icelandic
german
old english
old germanic languages
stem or thematic vowel
t’s v-feature
τ-features
φ-features
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2016-0001

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https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2016-0001

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