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ABSTRACTIn syntagms involving preposition + object the match‐up between Gothic and Greek seems at first sight highly capricious both lexically and with regard to case government. This paper presents the results of an exhaustive analysis of every prepositional phrase of both Greek and Gothic within a delimited but significant subcorpus of the Gothic Bible. Once one has made allowance for diachronic developments affecting the case systems of Greek and Gothic, the resulting structure represents an idiomatic and cohesive syntactic, semantic, and lexical system within Gothic. These findings support Curme's contention that our extant Gothic corpus is idiomatic and not a slavish and forced Gothicized version of Gree

ISSN:0079-1636    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1992.tb00423.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThere has recently been an upsurge in interest in variation in both synchronic and diachronic linguistics. This paper begins with two hypotheses: first, that phonologists ought these days to be interested in how variation is analysed, and secondly, that the Standard Generative approach involving underlying identity is not the way to do it. It is shown that a particular difference between RP and Standard Scottish English can be appropriately analysed within a Lexical Phonology allowing underlying discrepancies between dialects. However, the introduction of underspecification into the model allows the (badly motivated) reintroduction of underlying identity. The paper concludes with a survey of further problems with underspecification theory.

ISSN:0079-1636    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1992.tb00424.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY