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Parameter Theory and Linguistic Change
Edited by Charlotte Galves, Sonia Cyrino, Ruth Lopes, Filomena Sandalo, and Juanito Avelar
416 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-965920-3
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Hardback
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01 November 2012
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- Written by leading international scholars
- Addresses key issues in linguistic theory and language change
- Explores change and variation in a very wide range of languages
This book focuses on some of the most important issues in historical syntax. In a series of close examinations of languages from old Egyptian to modern Afrikaans, leading scholars present new work on Afro-Asiatic, Latin and Romance, Germanic, Albanian, Celtic, Indo-Iranian, and Japanese. The book revolves around the linked themes of parametric theory and the dynamics of language change. The former is a key element in the search for explanatory adequacy in historical syntax: if the notion of imperfect learning, for example, explains a large element of grammatical change, it is vital to understand how parameters are set in language acquisition and how
they might have been set differently in previous generations. The authors test particular hypotheses against data from different times and places with the aim of understanding the relationship between language variation and the dynamics of change. Is it possible, for example, to reconcile the unidirectionality of change predominantly expressed in the phenomenon of "grammaticalization", with the multidirectionality predicted by generativist approaches? In terms of the richness of the data it examines, the broad range of languages it discusses, and the use it makes of linguistic theory this is an outstanding book, not least in the contribution it makes to the understanding of language change.Readership: Researchers,
teachers, and advanced students of language change and linguistic theory. Graduate and advanced students taking courses in comparative and historical syntax.
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Edited by Charlotte Galves, Department of Linguistics, State University of Campinas, Sonia Cyrino, Department of Linguistics, State University of Campinas, Ruth Lopes, Department of Linguistics, State University of Campinas, Filomena Sandalo, Department of Linguistics, State University of Campinas, and Juanito Avelar, Department of Linguistics, State University of Campinas Charlotte Galves studied in Paris (Paris IV- Sorbonne and Paris VIII-Vincennes) and is currently Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Campinas. She has published on the comparative syntax of European and Brazilian Portuguese from both
synchronic and diachronic perspectives. She coordinates the elaboration of the Tycho Brahe Parsed Corpus of Historical Portuguese. Her publications include Ensaios sobre as gramáticas do português and, as co-editor, África-Brasil: Caminhos da Lingua Portuguesa (Editora da Unicamp, 2001 and 2009).
Sonia Cyrino studied at the University of Campinas where she is currently Associate Professor. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Maryland at College Park and at the University of Cambridge (UK). She is interested in syntactic theory and diachronic change in Brazilian Portuguese. Her publications include chapters in the iGoing Romancer series (John Benjamins) and articles in Journal of Portuguese Linguistics and Iberia-International Journal on Theoretical Linguistics.
Ruth Lopes joined the University of Campinas in 2006 where she is an Associate Professor. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland at College Park and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her interests are language acquisition and the syntax-semantics interface. She is the co-authorm, with Carlost Mioto and Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva of Novo Manual de Sintaxe (Insular, 2004).
Filomena Sandalo has a PhD from the University of Pittsburg and is currently Associate Professor at the University of Campinas. She was a Post-Doctoral Associate from 1996 to 1998 and a visiting scholar in 2001 and 2010-2011 at MIT. She has published on the phonology and morphology of Portuguese and the native languages of South America. Her publications include A Grammar of Kadiwéu (MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics 11, 1997).
Juanito Avelar studied in Rio de Janeiro and Campinas and is currently Associate Professor at the University of Campinas. He has published on syntactic variation and on the history of Brazilian Portuguese. His publications include Ter, ser e estar: dinâmicas morfossintáticas no português brasileiro (RG Editora, 2009) and, co-edited with Fernão de Oliveira, Um gramático na história (Pontes, 2009).
Contributors: Charlotte Galves, State University of Campinas Sônia Cyrino, State University of Campinas Ruth Lopes, State University of Campinas Filomena Sandalo, State University of Campinas Juanito Avelar, State University of Campinas Judy B. Bernstein, William Paterson University of New Jersey Theresa Biberauer, University of Cambridge Adriana Cardoso, University of Lisbon Chiara Gianollo, University of Stuttgart Virginia Hill, University of New Brunswick - Saint John Mary Aizawa Kato, State University of Campinas Elliott Lash, Dublin Institute for
Advanced Studies Giuseppe Longobardi, University of Triests Ana Maria Martins, University of Lisbon Guido Mensching, Freie University Berlin Chris H. Reintges, University Paris 7 Ilza Ribeiro, University of Bahia Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge Christopher D. Sapp, University of Mississippi Maria Aparecida Torres Morais, University of São Paulo Joel Wallenberg, Newcastle University John Whitman, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo Yuko Yanagida, University of Tsukuba Raffaella Zanuttini, Yale University Hedde Zeijlstra, University of Amsterdam
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1: Charlotte Galves, Sônia Cyrino, and Ruth Lopes: Parameter Theory and Dynamics of Change
2: Guido Mensching: parameters in Old Romance Word order: A comparative minimalist analysis
3: Chris Sapp: Micro-parameters in the Verbal Complex: Middle High German and some modern varieties
4: Joel Wallenberg: Language Acquisition in German and Phrase Structure Change in Yiddish
5: Adriana Cardoso: Extraposition of Restrictive Relative Clauses in the History of Portuguese
6: Ilza Ribeiro and Maria A. Torres Morais: Doubling-que Embedded Constructions in Old Portuguese: A diachronic perspective
7: Mary Aizawa Kato: Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish: Similar changes in Romania Nova
8: Chris H. Reintges: macroparametric Change and the Synthetic-analytic Dimension: The case of Ancient Egyptian
9: Judy B. Bernstein and Raffaella Zanuttini: A Diachronic Shift in the Expression of Person
10: John Whitman and Yuko Yanagida: The Formal Syntax of Alignment Change
11: Elliott Lash: The Diachronic Development of the Irish Comparative Particle
12: Ana Maria Martins: Deictic Locatives, Emphasis, and Metalinguistic Negation
13: Teresa Biberauer and Hedde Zeijlstra: Negative Changes: Three factors and the diachrony of Afrikaans negation
14: Virginia Hill: Romanian 'Can': Change in parametric settings
15: Chiara Gianollo: Prepositional Genitives in Romance and the Issue of parallel Development: From Latin to Old French
16: Giuseppe Longobardi: Parameter Theory, Historical Convergences, and the implicational Structure of UG
17: Ian Roberts: Macroparameters and Minimalism: A programme for comparative research
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