Winfred P. Lehmann, Director :: PCL 5.112, 1 University Station S5490 :: Austin, TX 78712 :: 512-471-4566
Word Order Indices
Indo-European Typology Project
Citation Record
Harris, Martin. 1978. The Evolution of French Syntax: A comparative approach. London and New York: Longman.
CASE
- case [ablative]
- case [ablative] [of comparison] [Latin]
- case [accusative]
- case [dative]
- case [genitive]
- case [nominative]
- case system [Latin]
- case system [loss of]
- case system [loss of] [and word order change]
- case [with preposition]
- case [without preposition]
LANGUAGE CHANGE
- adposition [introduction of]
- analogy
- analytic to synthetic [Latin/Romance]
- case system [loss of]
- case system [loss of] [and word order change]
- clause [subordination] [relative clause] [change to postnominal]
- comparative construction [ablative of comparison] [loss of] [Latin]
- comparative construction [change of]
- cyclical change
- drift
- future [periphrastic] [emergeance of] [Latin/Romance]
- future [synthetic] [loss of] [Latin]
- grammaticalization
- language change
- language change [OV to VO]
- language change [OV to VO] [Latin/Romance]
- linguistic residue
- linguistic residue [word order] [Latin]
- linguistic residue [word order patterns]
- linguistic residue [word order patterns] [French]
- loss of genitive [Latin to Romance]
- negation
- negation [development of] [French]
- negation [origin of negation particle]
- negation [origin of negation particle] [French]
- reanalysis
- reduction of inflectional endings
- reduction of inflectional endings [German]
- SOV to VSO to SVO
- syntactic change
- synthetic to analytic
- synthetic to analytic [Romance languages]
- typological change
- word order change [Latin/Romance]
LANGUAGE TYPE
- inflectional language
- OV language
- OV language [agglutinative structure]
- postpositional language
- prepositional language
- SOV language
- SOV language [and preferance for suffixes]
- SVO language
- SVO language [and preferance for prefixes]
- SVO language [as more natural type]
- SVO language [correlation with prepositions]
- SVX language
- V2 language
- VO language
- VOS language
- VSO language
- VSO language [parallels with SVO languages]
LANGUAGES
- English
- French
- Italian
- Latin
- Latin [Classical]
- Latin [Early]
- Latin [Late]
- Latin [registers of]
- Latin [various stages of]
- Latin [Vulgar]
- Old French
- Portuguese
- Proto-Indo-European
- Romance languages
- Rumanian
- Spanish
LINGUISTIC CONCEPTS
- head
- head [vs. modifier]
- language universals
- language universals [implicational]
- language universals [word order linked with morpheme order]
- specified element
- specifying element
LINGUISTIC CONSTRUCTIONS
- absolute construction [word order pattern] [Latin]
- comparative construction [with ablative]
- correlative construction [Latin]
- correlative construction [word order] [Latin]
- negation [French]
- negation [Latin]
- periphrastic construction
- periphrastic construction [passive] [Romance languages]
LINGUISTIC ITEMS
- ad [use with accusative case] [Latin]
- de [use with ablative case] [Latin]
- nonne [interrogative] [Latin]
- num [interrogative] [Latin]
- pas [French]
- pas [French] [origin of]
- quam [comparative particle] [Latin]
- quam [comparative particle] [Latin] [origin of]
- qui [relative pronoun] [Latin]
- quis [interrogative pronoun] [Latin]
- quod [subordinating conjunction] [Latin]
METHODS, APPROACHES, AND HYPOTHESES
- diachronic linguistics
- head [vs. modifier]
- historical linguistics
- typology [word order]
- word order universals
MORPHOLOGY
- affixation [types of]
- analytic morphology [vs. synthetic]
- case endings [nominative]
- inflection [and language type]
- inflection [and word order]
- morphology [loss of]
- suffixation
- synthetic morphology [vs. analytic]
PARTS OF SPEECH
- adjective [postposed]
- adjective [postposed] [French]
- adjective [postposed] [Latin]
- adjective [postposed] [Romance languages]
- adjective [preposed]
- adjective [preposed] [French]
- adjective [preposed] [Latin]
- adjective [preposed] [Romance languages]
- auxiliary [emergence of] [Latin]
- auxiliary [position of]
- preposition
- pronoun [relative] [Latin]
- pronoun [relative] [position of]
- pronoun [subject]
- pronoun [subject] [cliticization of]
- verb [verb-final structure]
SEMANTIC CONCEPTS
SYNTACTIC PHRASES
- adjective [adjacency to noun] [Latin]
- adjective [AN][unmarked][Latin]
- adjective [AN vs. NA]
- adjective [NA] [marked] [Latin]
- clause [relative] [Latin]
- clause [relative] [position of]
- comparative construction
- comparative construction [case change to particle]
- comparative construction [case change to particle] [Latin]
- comparative construction [case comparative]
- comparative construction [case comparative] [Latin]
- comparative construction [case construction]
- comparative construction [development of]
- comparative construction [Latin]
- comparative construction [position of pivot]
- comparative construction [position of standard]
- comparative construction [position of standard] [OV languages]
- comparative construction [position of standard] [VO languages]
- comparative construction [quam construction] [Latin]
- comparative construction [types of] [Latin]
- comparative construction [word order]
- comparative construction [word order patterns] [OV languages]
- comparative construction [word order patterns] [VO languages]
- comparative construction [word order] [Romance languages]
SYNTAX
- analytic structures
- interrogative construction
- inversion [subject-verb] [French]
- operator-operand relation
- periphrasis
- subject inversion
- subject inversion [explanation of]
- subject inversion [explanation of] [Latin]
- subject inversion [Latin]
- syntax [evolution of]
- topic
WORD ORDER
- OV
- OV [Latin]
- SOV [Latin]
- SOV [subordinate clause]
- SVO [Romance]
- SXV [Latin]
- TVX [Old French]
- V2
- VO
- word order change
- word order [emphatic use] [Latin]
- word order [fixed]
- word order [free] [Latin]
- word order [Latin]
- word order [marked]
- word order patterns [correlation]
- word order patterns [Latin]
- word order patterns [marked]
- word order [Romance languages]
- word order [unmarked]
WORD ORDER CHANGE
- OV to VO [Latin]
- OV to VO [Latin/Romance]
- verb [in medial position] [emergence of] [Latin]
- verb [in medial position] [emergence of] [Latin] [explanation of]
- verb [in medial position] [spread of] [Latin]
- verb [in medial position] [spread of] [Latin] [explanation of]
- VSO to SVO
- word order change [cause] [syntactic motivation]
- word order change [perceptual difficulties]
- word order change [Romance languages]
- word order change [SXV to TVX to SVX]
- word order change [typological approach]
- word order patterns [residues] [French]