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- Title
THE OLD SARDINIAN CONDAGHES: A SYNTACTIC STUDY.
- Authors
Wolfe, Sam
- Abstract
This article presents findings of a syntactic study of two Old Sardinian legal documents. It is proposed that Old Sardinian had a verb-initial syntax, which at face value appears quite distinct from the verb-second (V2) syntax reported elsewhere in Old Romance. It is suggested, however, that this verb-initial order is derived by V-to-C movement, a feature which is inherited from late Latin and represents a synchronic point of continuity in the syntax of Old Romance varieties. Old Sardinian matrix clauses show evidence for a rich set of left peripheral projections to which subjects can raise, leading to an SVO/VSO alternation which is sensitive to the information structure of the subject constituent in question. There is no direct evidence for these discourse-related projections in the C-layer in embedded contexts, leading to a strict VSO word order and suggesting that Old Sardinian may have an impoverished embedded left periphery.
- Subjects
LEGAL documents; VERBS; SYNTAX (Grammar); SARDINIAN language; CLAUSES (Grammar); VOCABULARY
- Publication
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2015, Vol 113, Issue 2, p177
- ISSN
0079-1636
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-968X.12046