Syntactic Change语言学句法变化 .ppt

Syntactic Change语言学句法变化 Syntactic Change语言学句法变化 $ ` $ Syntactic Change 古英语时期(450-1150)因词形众多，使得句子结构很复杂。 中古英语时期(1150-1500)，句法结构越来越依靠词序来表达意义。 中古英语后期，英语的句子结构已经和现代英语很接近了。 Change of word order Change in negation rule Change of word order Old English had a complicated system of case marking as explained in the previous section. Its word order was somehow variable from that of Modern English too. S O V Hēo hine laerde She him advised She advised him. When the direct object was a pronoun in Old English, the subject -object