Diachronic SyntaxOUP Oxford, 2007 - 508 Seiten This book shows how the generative approach to linguistics may be used to understand how languages change. Generative diachronic syntax has developed since the inception of the principles and parameters approach to comparative syntax in the early 1980s: it has become increasingly important in historical linguistics and generative theory, acting as a bridge between them and providing insights to both. Ian Roberts relates work in historical linguistics to contemporary work on universal grammar and historical syntactic variation. He explains how standard questions in historical linguistics - including word-order change, grammaticalization, and reanalysis - can be explored in terms of current generative theory. He examines the nature of the links between syntactic change and first-language acquisition and considers the short and long-term effects of language contact. Professor Roberts provides numerous examples from a range of different languages, guides to further reading, and a comprehensive glossary. This is the ideal textbook introduction for students of syntactic change. |
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... formal features in a particular syntactic domain . Formal features are categorial features like V and N , as well as features like Person , Number , Gender , and Case , which are clearly relevant for morphosyntactic well - formedness ...
... formal features in a particular syntactic domain . Formal features are categorial features like V and N , as well as features like Person , Number , Gender , and Case , which are clearly relevant for morphosyntactic well - formedness ...
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... formal entities : the features of lexical entries ) . The existence of lexical diffusion as a kind of change distinct from parametric change raises an interesting theoretical question . Most minim- alist work follows the general ...
... formal entities : the features of lexical entries ) . The existence of lexical diffusion as a kind of change distinct from parametric change raises an interesting theoretical question . Most minim- alist work follows the general ...
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... formal theory of grammar ; more substantively , it refers to a grammatical description which is concerned with the linguistic form rather than linguistic function . In this sense , too , generative grammar is a formal theory . Formal ...
... formal theory of grammar ; more substantively , it refers to a grammatical description which is concerned with the linguistic form rather than linguistic function . In this sense , too , generative grammar is a formal theory . Formal ...
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Further reading | 8 |
the development of French nwords | 77 |
Types of syntactic change | 121 |
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