Where did Romance N-Raising come from? A Parallel Study of Parameter Resetting in Latin and English

What is it about?

In this paper we try to trace the origin of noun movement (N-raising) in Romance, by investigating whether it was an innovation of Latin or Romance or whether it is detectable in at least another branch of the Indo-European family that does not manifest it nowadays, which might be a first suggestion that it was a common Indo-European feature, subsequently lost in some languages.

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Why is it important?

Gives insights into the development of Romance and English grammar, and into the significance of syntactic data for language phylogeny and reconstruction