Grammar Competition and Word Order in a Northern Early Middle English Text
Grammar Competition and Word Order in a Northern Early Middle English Text
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北方早期中古英语文本中的语法竞争和词序
DOI：
10.3390/languages6020059
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发表时间：
2021
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0.9
通讯作者：
R. Truswell
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作者：
R. Truswell
爱丁堡皇家医师学院的光标蒙迪和北部的同性恋者是14世纪初的北部中等英语文本，其中包含前所未有的矩阵动词三分之二和嵌入式动词序列的高频这些单词顺序的理论上说明了语法，即“ CM语法”，它的正式描述与常规描述最小不同动词秒语法，但通过添加第二个预言，捕获了这些不寻常的单词，尽管它的灵活性，但CM语法并未通过讲英语的人群传播。语法竞争模型，其中健身与解析成功相关，并讨论了精炼此类模型的前景。
The Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians manuscript of Cursor Mundi and the Northern Homilies, a northern Middle English text from the early 14th century, contains unprecedentedly high frequencies of matrix verb-third and embedded verb-second word orders with subject–verb inversion. I give a theoretical account of these word orders in terms of a grammar, the ‘CM grammar’, which differs minimally in its formal description from regular verb-second grammars, but captures these unusual word orders through addition of a second preverbal A′-projection. Despite its flexibility, the CM grammar did not spread through the English-speaking population. I discuss the theoretical consequences of this failure to spread for models of grammar competition where fitness is tied to parsing success, and discuss prospects for refining such models.