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Historical Syntax and Linguistic Theory
Edited by Paola Crisma and Giuseppe Longobardi
432 pages
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Tables, line drawings
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234x156mm
978-0-19-956054-7
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Hardback
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12 March 2009
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- Balanced between data and theory, description and explanation
- Contains data from a wide range of languages
- Addresses central topic in current historical syntax
This book of new work by leading international scholars considers developments in the study of diachronic linguistics and linguistic theory, including those concerned with the very definition of language change in the biolinguistic framework, parametric change in a minimalist conception of grammar, the tension between the observed gradual nature of language change and the binary nature of parameters, and whether syntactic change can be triggered internally or requires the external stimuli produced by phonological or morphological change or through language contact. It then tests their value and applicability by examining syntactic change at different times and in a
wide range of languages, including German, Chinese, Dutch, Sanskrit, Egyptian, Norwegian, old Italian, Portuguese, English, the Benue-Kwa languages of Niger-Congo, Catalan, Spanish, and old French. The book is divided into three parts devoted to (i) theoretical issues in historical syntax; (ii) external (such as contact and interference) and internal (grammatical) sources of morphosynactic change; and (iii) parameter setting and reanalysis.Readership: Advanced students and scholars of diachronic and synchronic generative syntax specifically, and historical and theoretical linguistics more generally.
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Edited by Paola Crisma, University of Trieste, and Giuseppe Longobardi, University of Trieste Contributors:
Paola Crisma, University of Trieste
Giuseppe Longobardi, University of Triests
Edith Aldridge, University of Washington
Juanito Avelar, State University of Campinas
Katrin Axel, Saarland University
Theresa Biberauer, University of Cambridge
Griet Coupé, Radboud University of Nijmegen
Alice Davison, University of Iowa
Denis Delfitto, University of Verona
Redouane Djamouri, CNRS
Elly van Gelderen, Arizona State
University
Kleanthes K. Grohmann, University of Cyprus
Richard Ingham, Birmingham City University
Agnes Jäger, University of Frankfurt/Main
Edward L. Keenan, UCLA
Ans van Kemenade, Radboud University of Nijmegen
Victor Manfredi, Boston University
Ana Maria Martins, Universidade de Lisboa
Jaume Mateu, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Éric Mathieu, University of Ottawa
Jairo Nunes, Universidade de São Paulo
Paola Paradisi, University of Leiden
Waltraud Paul, CNRS
Heidi Quinn, University of Canterbury
Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge
Chris H. Reintges, CNRS
Akira Watanage, University of Tokyo
Marit
Westergaard, University of Tromsø
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1: Paola Crisma and Giuseppe Longobardi: Change, Relatedness, and Inertia in Historical Syntax
Part I: Theoretical Issues in Historical Syntax
2: Edward L. Keenan: Linguistic Theory and the Historical Creation of English Reflexives
3: Chris H. Reintges: Spontaneous Syntactic Change
4: Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts: The Return of the Subset Principle
5: Marit R. Westergaard: Many Small Catastrophes: Gradualism in a Microparametric Perspective
Part II: External and Internal Sources of Morphosyntaactic Change
6: Elly van Gelderen: Feature Economy in the Linguistic Cycle
7: Agnes Jäger: Sources of Change in the German Syntax of Negation
8: Katrin Axel: The Consolidation of Verb-Second in Old High German: What Role did Subject Pronouns Play?
9: Ana Maria Martins and Jairo Nunes: Syntactic Change as Chain Reaction: The Emergence of Hyper-Raising in Brazilian Portuguese
10: Juanito Avelar: On the Emergence of ter as an Existential Verb in Brazilian Portuguese
11: Jaume Mateu: Gradience and Auxiliary Selection in Old Catalan and Old Spanish
12: Redouane Djamouri and Waltraud Paul: Verb-to-Preposition Reanalysis in Chinese
13: Heidi Quinn: Downward Reanalysis and the Rise of Stative HAVE Got
Part III: Parameter Resetting and Reanalysis
14: Edith Aldridge: The Old Chinese Determiner zhe
15: Griet Coupé and Ans van Kemenade: Grammaticalization of Modals in Dutch: Uncontingent Change
16: Alice Davison: Correlative Clause Features in Sanskrit and Hindi/Urdu
17: Denis Delfitto and Paola Paradisi: For a Diachronic Theory of Genitive Assignment in Romance
18: Kleanthes K. Grohmann and RIchard Ingham: Expletive pro and Misagreement in Late Middle English
19: VIctor Manfredi: Morphosyntactic Parameters and the Internal Classification of Denue-Kwa (Niger-Congo)
20: Éric Mathieu: On the Germanic Properties of Old French
21: Akira Watanabe: A Parametric Shift in the D-system in Early Middle English: Relativization, Articles, Adjectival Inflection, and Indeterminates
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