Stylistic Fronting in the Ormulum - Scandinavian Syntactic Phenomena in Early Middle English Texts

EPP: Object Shift and Stylistic Fronting in Scandinavian

One of the intriguing parametric differences between Icelandic and Mainland Scandinavian languages (MSc.; Da(nish), Nor(wegian) and Swe(dish)) is the fact that Icelandic allows Object Shift (OS) of weak pronominals as well as full DPs, whereas MSc. allows the former (Holmberg 1986, Holmberg and Platzack 1995, Bobaljik and Thráinsson 1998, Thráinsson 2001). Thus the main question of this paper i...

Stylistic fronting as remnant movement

This paper presents a novel analysis of the phenomenon of stylistic fronting in Icelandic. It is argued that stylistic fronting is not a head-movement operation, but rather phrasal movement to subject position. In many cases, however, independent factors determine evacuation of the phrase prior to raising, i.e. the fronted phrase can be a remnant. It is shown that this approach can account for ...

Verbs, Subjects and Stylistic Fronting

the translators agency and ideological manipulation in translation: the case of political texts in translation classes in iran

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the impact of musical texts on the text recall of young learners of english in isfahan junior high schools

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...