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Grammatical Change
http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Grammatical-Change-Dianne-Elizabeth-Jonas-Edited-by-John-Whitman-Edited-by/9780199582624
Origins, Nature, Outcomes
By
Dianne Elizabeth Jonas (Edited by), John Whitman (Edited by), Andrew Garrett (Edited by)
$122
Price includes NZ wide delivery! Ships from UK supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Hardback, 398 pages | | Other Information: | 38 tables, 17 figures | | Published In: | United Kingdom, 24 November 2011 |
This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field. Leading international scholars report and reflect on the latest research into the nature and outcomes of all aspects of syntactic change including grammaticalization, variation, complementation, syntactic movement, determiner-phrase syntax, pronominal systems, case systems, negation, and alignment. The authors deploy a variety of generative frameworks, including minimalist and optimality theoretic, and bring these to bear on a wide range of languages: among the latter are typologically distinct examples from Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Greek, Korean and Japanese, Austronesian, Celtic, and Nahuatl. They draw on sociolinguistic evidence where appropriate. Taken as a whole, the volume provides a stimulating overview of key current issues in the investigation of the origins, nature, and outcome of syntactic change. |
Table of Contents1. Introduction; PART 1: GRAMMATICALIZATION AND DIRECTIONALITY OF CHANGE; 2. Grammaticalization as Optimization; 3. The Historical Syntax Problem: Reanalysis and Directionality; 4. Grammaticalization of ser and estar in Romance; 5. A Minimalist Approach to Jespersen's Cycle in Welsh; PART 2: CHANGE IN THE NOMINAL DOMAIN: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS; 6. A New Perspective on the Historical Development of English Intensifiers and Reflexives; 7. Language Contact and Linguistic Complexity - The Rise of the Reflexive Pronoun zich in a 15th Century netherlands' Border Dialect; 8. An Article Evolving: The Case of Old Bulgarian; 9. Parametric Changes in the History of the Greek Article; 10. Triggering Syntactic Change: Inertia and Local Causes in the History of English Genitives; PART 3: CHANGE IN THE CLAUSAL DOMAIN: CUES, TRIGGERS, AND ARTICULATION; 11. Revisting Verb (Projection) Raising in Old English; 12. Syntax and Discourse in Old English and Middle Word Order; 13. Subjects in Early English: Syntactic Change as Gradual Constraint Reranking; 14. Coordination, Gapping, and the Portuguese Inflected Infinitive: The Role of Structural Ambiguity in Syntactic Change; 15. Neg Movement in the History of Norwegian: The Evolution of a Grammatical Virus; PART 4: MORPHOSYNTACTIC CHANGE AND LANGUAGE TYPE; 16. On the Gradual Development of Polysynthesis in Nahuatl; 17. Antipassive in Austronesian Alignment Changeg; References; Acknowledgements; Index
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | | ISBN: | 0199582629 |
| EAN: | 9780199582624 | | Dimensions: | 24.0 x 16.0 x 2.0 centimeters (0.73 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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