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Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics Ser.: Syntax over Time : Lexical, Morphological, and Information-Structural Interactions by George Walkden (2015, Hardcover)
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Syntax over Time : Lexical, Morphological, and Information-Structural Interactions, Hardcover by Biberauer, Theresa (EDT); Walkden, George (EDT), ISBN 0199687927, ISBN-13 9780199687923, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and how it is related to the lexicon, morphology, and information structure. It draws on data from a wide variety of languages and will be of interest to all linguists working on syntactic variation and change.
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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100199687927
ISBN-139780199687923
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Number of Pages440 Pages
Publication NameSyntax over Time : Lexical, Morphological, and Information-Structural Interactions
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
SubjectLinguistics / Syntax, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Linguistics / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines
AuthorGeorge Walkden
SeriesOxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics Ser.
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight28.8 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2014-941343
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal417.7
Table Of Content1.. Introduction, Theresa Biberauer and George WalkdenPART I: Syntax and the Lexicon2. Expletive there in West Germanic, Caitlin Light3. From passive to active: Stages in the Icelandic New Impersonal, Joan Maling and Sigriðdur Sigurjonsdottir4. Change in the syntax and semantics of be like quotatives, William Haddican, Eytan Zweig, and Daniel Ezra Johnson5. The grammaticalization of postpositions in Old Hungarian, Veronika Hegedus6. A negative cycle in 12th - 15th century Hungarian, Katalin E. Kiss7. Negation and NPI composition inside DP, Ana Maria MartinsPART II: Syntax and Morphology8. Increasing morphological complexity and how syntax drives morphological change, Chris H. Reintges9. Reconstructing complementizer-drop in the dialects of the Salento: A syntactic or phonological phenomenon, Adam Ledgeway10. On negation, tense, and participles in Finnic and Sami, Marit Julien11. On the loss of tense and verb-adjacent clitics in Slavic, Krzysztof Migdalski12. The evolution of Inherent Case in the diachrony of Greek, Dimitris MichelioudakisPART III: Syntax and Information Structure13. From preposition to topic marker: Old Romanian pe, Virginia Hill14. Verb-third in early West Germanic: A comparative perspective, George Walkden15. Changes in Friulano subject clitics: Conflation and interactions with the left periphery, Ed Cormany16. The decline of Latin left-peripheral presentation foci: Causes and consequences, Lieven Danckaert17. Weak focus and polarity: Asymmetries between Spanish and Catalan, Montserrat Batllori and Maria-Lluisa Hernanz18. An interface account of word order variation in Old High German, Roland Hinterholzl19. Verb order, object position, and information status in Old English, Ann Taylor and Susan Pintzuk20. Antisymmetry and heavy NP shift across Germanic, Joel C. Wallenberg21. Pronominal object shift in Archaic Chinese, Edith Aldridge
SynopsisThis book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and how it is related to the lexicon, morphology, and information structure. It draws on data from a wide variety of languages and will be of interest to all linguists working on syntactic variation and change., This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and the factors that influence it. Converging empirical and theoretical considerations have suggested that apparent instances of syntactic change may be attributable to factors outside syntax proper, such as morphology or information structure. Some even go so far as to propose that there is no such thing as syntactic change, and that all such change in fact takes place in the lexicon or in the phonological component. In this volume, international scholars examine these proposals, drawing on detailed case studies from Germanic, Romance, Chinese, Egyptian, Finnic, Hungarian, and Sámi. They aim to answer such questions as: Can syntactic change arise without an external impetus? How can we tell whether a given change is caused by information-structural or morphological factors? What can 'microsyntactic' investigations of changes in individual lexical items tell us about the bigger picture? How universal are the clausal and nominal templates ('cartography'), and to what extent is syntactic structure more generally subject to universal constraints?The book will be of interest to all linguists working on syntactic variation and change, and especially those who believe that historical linguistics and linguistic theory can, and should, inform one another., This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and the factors that influence it. Converging empirical and theoretical considerations have suggested that apparent instances of syntactic change may be attributable to factors outside syntax proper, such as morphology or information structure. Some even go so far as to propose that there is no such thing as syntactic change, and that all such change in fact takes place in the lexicon or in the phonological component. In this volume, international scholars examine these proposals, drawing on detailed case studies from Germanic, Romance, Chinese, Egyptian, Finnic, Hungarian, and Sami. They aim to answer such questions as: Can syntactic change arise without an external impetus? How can we tell whether a given change is caused by information-structural or morphological factors? What can 'microsyntactic' investigations of changes in individual lexical items tell us about the bigger picture? How universal are the clausal and nominal templates ('cartography'), and to what extent is syntactic structure more generally subject to universal constraints? The book will be of interest to all linguists working on syntactic variation and change, and especially those who believe that historical linguistics and linguistic theory can, and should, inform one another.
LC Classification NumberP142
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