Morphological effects on word order and subject omission: a diachronic study

序言
List of Abbreviations
Abstract
摘要
Introduction i
Chapter 1 A Study of the Contemporary Morphological Researches on Syntax 1
1.0 Introduction 1
1.1 Contemporary Morphological Researches on Word Order 2
1.1.1 Rohrbacher (1999) 2
1.1.1.1 Strong agreement hypothesis 2
1.1.1.2 Bobaljik's (2002) view on the strong agreement hypothesis 4
1.1.2 Bobaljik (2002) 5
1.1.2.1 Effects of syntactic structure variation 6
1.1.2.2 Our view on Bobaljik's (2002) hypotheses 8
1.1.3 Trosterud (1989) 9
1.1.3.1 Nominative case-marking hypothesis 10
1.1.3.2 Counterevidence from Faroese 11
1.1.4 Roberts (1993) 14
1.1.4.1 The hypothesis of overt distinct agreement marking 15
1.1.4.2 Our view based on Rohrbacher's (1999) counterevidence
1.1.5 Holmberg and Platzack (1995) 17
1.1.5.1 Presence of Agr 18
1.1.5.2 Finiteness feature 20
1.1.5.3 Our relative proposals 22
1.2 Researches on Subject Omission 23
1.2.1 Chomsky (1981， 1982) 24
1.2.2 Jaeggli and Safir (1989) 25
1.2.3 Shortcomings of the two null subject hypotheses 27
1.2.4 Vainikka and Levy (1999) 29
1.2.4.1 Pronominal correspondence 30
1.2.4.2 Our view on Vainikka and Levy's (1999) hypothesis. 34
1.3 Conclusion 35
Chapter 2 Theoretical Background and Main Proposals of
Morphological Effects 37
2.0 Introduction 37
2.1 Morphological Evolution 37
2. 1. 1 Theoretical background 38
2.1.1.1 Original morphological inflections 38
2.1.1.2 Tendency of morphological evolution 39
2.1.2 Process of morphological evolution 41
2.1.3 Verbal agreement paradigms of different richness degrees
2.1.4 Our hypothesis about ways of language evolution 48
2.2 Language Classification with Respect to Verbal Agreement
Morphology 51
2.2.1 Presence of the functional category Agr 51
2.2.2 C-Agr vs. T-Agr 54
2.2.3 Classification of agreement paradigms 56
2.2.3.1 Classification in our analysis of word order variation
2.2.3.2 Classification in our analysis of subject omission 58
2.2.3.3 Subdivision of degraded rich agreement morphology. 61
2.3 Theoretical Background about Syntactic Effects of Morphological
Change 64
2.3.1 Haeberli's (2000) diachronic study
2.3.2 Word computation
2.4 Our Proposals of Morphological Effects on Syntax
2.4.1 Two affixation levels
2.4.2 Psychological evidence for affixation levels
2.4.3 Morphological case system
2.4.4 Morphological influence on subject omission
2.5 Language Change as a Continuum
2.6 Conclusion
Chapter 3 A Diaehronie Study of the Romance Languages
Chapter 4 A Diachronic Study of the Germanic Languages
Chapter 5 Null Subject Permission
Conclusion
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Acknowledgements