Full Description
In this volume, Germen de Haan gives a multi-faceted view of the syntax, sociolinguistics, and phonology of West-Frisian. The author discusses distinct aspects of the syntax of verbs in Frisian: finiteness and Verb Second, embedded root phenomena, the verbal complex, verbal complementation, and complementizer agreement. Because Frisian has minority language status and is of interest to sociolinguists, the author reviews the linguistic changes in Frisian under the influence of the dominant Dutch language and, more generally, reflects on how to deal with contact-induced change in grammar. Finally, in three phonological articles, the author discusses nasalization in Frisian, the putatively symmetrical vowel inventory of Frisian, and the variation between schwa + sonorant consonants and syllabic sonorant consonants.
Contents
1. Introduction (by Hoekstra, Jarich); 2. Chapter 1. Recent trends in Frisian linguistics; 3. Chapter 2. Why Old Frisian is really Middle Frisian; 4. Chapter 3. Syntax of Old Frisian; 5. Chapter 4. Finiteness and verb fronting; 6. Chapter 5. More is going on upstairs than downstairs: Embedded root phenomena in Frisian; 7. Chapter 6. The Imperativus-pro-Infinitivo; 8. Chapter 7. Two infinitives: 'prate' and 'praten'; 9. Chapter 8. The verbal complex; 10. Chapter 9. The third construction; 11. Chapter 10. Complementizer agreement; 12. Chapter 11. Grammatical borrowing and language change: The dutchification of Frisian; 13. Chapter 12. Frisian language changes; 14. Chapter 13. Recent changes in the verbal complex of Frisian; 15. Chapter 14. Contact-induced changes in Modern West Frisian; 16. Chapter 15. On the (in-)stability of Frisian; 17. Chapter 16. Nasalization and lengthening; 18. Chapter 17. Monophthongs and syllable structure; 19. Chapter 18. A lexical theory of schwa-deletion; 20. References; 21. Acknowledgements; 22. Index
