Chiara De Bastiani

List of John Benjamins publications in which Chiara De Bastiani is involved.

Title

Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and intersentential phenomena

Edited by Nicholas Catasso, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani

This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse – with a special focus on Germanic and Romance – and their role in language change. The contributions, set within the generative framework, discuss… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 275] 2022. viii, 255 pp.

Articles

Bastiani, Chiara De 2022 Chapter 5. The reanalysis of VO in the history of English: Evidence for a language-internal account English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning, Los, Bettelou, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 115–136 | Chapter

In this paper, I present empirical data about selected Early Middle English (henceforth eME) texts which show how the reanalysis of VO as the unmarked word order constitutes a uniform development from Old English (henceforth OE). I employ an antisymmetric framework, in which information… read more

Catasso, Nicholas, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani 2022 Interface phenomena and language change: Where we are and where we are going Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and intersentential phenomena, Catasso, Nicholas, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Chapter