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E-grāmata: Grammatical Change: Origins, Nature, Outcomes [Oxford Scholarship Online E-books]

Edited by (Goethe University), Edited by (Department of Linguistics, Cornell University), Edited by (Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley)
  • Formāts: 400 pages, 38 Tables, 17 Figures
  • Izdošanas datums: 24-Nov-2011
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-13: 9780199582624
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  • Formāts: 400 pages, 38 Tables, 17 Figures
  • Izdošanas datums: 24-Nov-2011
  • Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-13: 9780199582624
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.
Notes on Contributors vii
1 Introduction
1(12)
John Whitman
Dianne Jonas
Andrew Garrett
Part I Grammaticalization and Directionality of Change
13(108)
2 Grammaticalization as optimization
15(37)
Paul Kiparsky
3 The historical syntax problem: reanalysis and directionality
52(21)
Andrew Garrett
4 Grammaticalization of ser and estar in Romance
73(20)
Montserrat Batllori
Francesc Roca
5 A minimalist approach to Jespersen's Cycle in Welsh
93(28)
David Willis
Part II Change in the Nominal Domain: Internal and External Factors
121(96)
6 A new perspective on the historical development of English intensifiers and reflexives
123(16)
Uffe Bergeton
Roumyana Pancheva
7 Language contact and linguistic complexity--the rise of the reflexive pronoun zich in a fifteenth-century Netherlands border dialect
139(21)
Gertjan Postma
8 An article evolving: the case of Old Bulgarian
160(19)
Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova
Valentin Vulchanov
9 Parametric changes in the history of the Greek article
179(19)
Cristina Guardiano
10 Triggering syntactic change: Inertia and local causes in the history of English genitives
198(19)
Paola Crisma
Part III Change in the Clausal Domain: Cues, Triggers, and Articulation
217(96)
11 Revisiting Verb (Projection) Raising in Old English
219(20)
Eric Haeberli
Susan Pintzuk
12 Syntax and discourse in Old and Middle English word order
239(17)
Ans van Kemenade
Tanja Milicev
13 Subjects in early English: syntactic change as gradual constraint reranking
256(19)
Brady Clark
14 Coordination, gapping, and the Portuguese inflected infinitive: the role of structural ambiguity in syntactic change
275(18)
Ana Maria Martins
15 Negative movement in the history of Norwegian: the evolution of a grammatical virus
293(20)
John Sundquist
Part IV Morphosyntactic Change and Language Type
313(34)
16 On the gradual development of polysynthesis in Nahuatl
315(17)
Jason D. Haugen
17 Antipassive in Austronesian alignment change
332(15)
Edith Aldridge
References 347(31)
Acknowledgments 378(1)
Index 379
Dianne Jonas (PhD Harvard University 1997) is currently replacement professor of English Linguistics at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Her main research interests are comparative Scandinavian syntax, Icelandic and Faroese in particular, syntactic variation and change, and dialect syntax (Shetland Dialect and Norfuk English).



John Whitman (PhD Harvard 1984) is Professor of Linguistics at Cornell University. He works on structural variation among languages, with a focus on the languages of East Asia: Japanese, Korean, and Chinese, in that order, in addition to a more recent interest in Burmese and Karen languages. Recent projects have been on the syntactic alignment of Old Japanese (with Yuko Yanagida), the structure of applicatives, and the long-vexed question of the word order typology of Old Chinese and proto-Sino-Tibetan (with Redouane Djamouri and Waltraud Paul).



Andrew Garrett (PhD Harvard 1990) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also serves as Director of the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. In historical linguistics he has published on general topics in sound change and morphological change as well as the dialectology, diversification, and prehistory of Yurok (an Algic language of California) and Western Numic (Uto-Aztecan), the dialectology and diachronic syntax of English, and the syntax and morphology of Anatolian, Greek, and Latin.