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Historical Syntax and Linguistic Theory


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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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Paola Crisma studied in Venice, Geneva and Los Angeles and is currently Assistant Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Trieste, after teaching at Padua and being a Fulbright visiting scholar at MIT and UCLA. She has published on comparative syntax, syntax acquisition, and history of English. Giuseppe Longobardi graduated from Pisa and is now Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Trieste, after teaching at Pisa and Venice. He held visiting positions at Vienna, UCLA, USC, Harvard, the CNRS in Paris, and published extensively on syntactic theory and historical syntax.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199560547
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 800 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199560544
  • Publisher Date: 12 Mar 2009
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 432
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Width: 164 mm


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