The aim of this paper is two-fold: on the one hand, its purpose is to show that Stylistic
Fronting was very productive in Old French; on the other, its rationale is the introduction of a …

Dans le cadre de la grammaire générative, le Principe de Projection Etendue (EPP) rend
compte de l'obligatoire insertion des explétifs (il, it, there...). Je formule ce Principe comme …

Stylistic fronting (SF) is an optional syntactic phenomenon whereby a lexical item that may
belong to various syntactic categories fronts to a pre-finite-V position, if no subject is merged …

Since Maling's (1980) study of embedded verb-second, Icelandic Stylistic Fronting has been
an extensively studied aspect of Icelandic syntax. It is widely regarded as an optional …

Old English has traditionally been considered a period of linguistic homogeneity, since most
available recorded texts are generally written in the West Saxon dialect. There are, however …

Cet article démontre que l'ancien français possédait, au-delà de la contrainte V2, plusieurs
propriétés germaniques: dislocation stylistique, sujets excentriques, constructions explétives …

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 …

The Ormulum has been, from the onset, at the very centre of the philological investigation of
the impact that Anglo-Scandinavian interaction in the Early Middle Ages had on the English …

This dissertation investigates the syntax of small clauses in Russian. The study of small
clauses in Russian has been concerned mainly with primary predication due to the case …

This study offers an analysis of the intensifier system of the Middle English Ormulum, and
explores the role both micro-level (ie linguistic) and macrolevel contexts (here language …