Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780198824961 |
| ISBN10: | 0198824963 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 332 pages |
| Size: | 240x160x23 mm |
| Weight: | 1 g |
| Language: | English |
| 198 |
Category:
Cycles in Language Change
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 18 September 2019
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Short description:
This volume explores multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change, including the diachrony of negation, the internal structure of wh-words, and changes in argument structure. It combines descriptions of novel data with detailed theoretical analysis, and will appeal to historical linguists and to anyone working on language variation and change.
Long description:
This volume explores the multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change from a wide range of empirical perspectives. The notion of 'linguistic cycle' has long been recognized as being relevant to the description of many processes of language change. In grammaticalization, a given linguistic form loses its lexical meaning - and sometimes some of its phonological content - and then gradually weakens until it ultimately vanishes. This change becomes cyclical when the grammaticalized form is replaced by an innovative item, which can then develop along exactly the same pathway. But cyclical changes have also been observed in language change outside of grammaticalization proper.
The chapters in this book reflect the growing interest in the phenomenon of grammaticalization and cyclicity in generative syntax, with topics including the diachrony of negation, the syntax of determiners and pronominal clitics, the internal structure of wh-words and logical operators, cyclical changes in argument structure, and the relationship between morphology and syntax. The contributions draw on data from multiple language families, such as Indo-European, Semitic, Japonic, and Athabascan.
The volume combines empirical descriptions of novel comparative data with detailed theoretical analysis, and will appeal to historical linguists working in formal and usage-based frameworks, as well as to typologists and scholars interested in language variation and change more broadly.
The chapters in this book reflect the growing interest in the phenomenon of grammaticalization and cyclicity in generative syntax, with topics including the diachrony of negation, the syntax of determiners and pronominal clitics, the internal structure of wh-words and logical operators, cyclical changes in argument structure, and the relationship between morphology and syntax. The contributions draw on data from multiple language families, such as Indo-European, Semitic, Japonic, and Athabascan.
The volume combines empirical descriptions of novel comparative data with detailed theoretical analysis, and will appeal to historical linguists working in formal and usage-based frameworks, as well as to typologists and scholars interested in language variation and change more broadly.
Table of Contents:
Cycling through diachrony
Cyclical change and problems of projection
When morphological and syntactic change are not in sync: Reassessing diachronic implications of the Rich Agreement Hypothesis
The clitic doubling parameter: Development and distribution of a cyclic change
Weak elements in cycles: A case study on dative pronouns in Old Italo-Romance
On the emergence of personal articles in the history of Catalan
Bare singular nouns in Middle Norwegian
What kind of constructions yield what kind of constructions?
Quantificational cycles and shifts
On the relative cycle: The case of P+che relative clauses from Old to Modern Italian
French negation, the Superset Principle, and Feature Conservation
From negative cleft to external negator
Changes in the argument and event structure of psych verbs in the history of Spanish
References
Index
Cyclical change and problems of projection
When morphological and syntactic change are not in sync: Reassessing diachronic implications of the Rich Agreement Hypothesis
The clitic doubling parameter: Development and distribution of a cyclic change
Weak elements in cycles: A case study on dative pronouns in Old Italo-Romance
On the emergence of personal articles in the history of Catalan
Bare singular nouns in Middle Norwegian
What kind of constructions yield what kind of constructions?
Quantificational cycles and shifts
On the relative cycle: The case of P+che relative clauses from Old to Modern Italian
French negation, the Superset Principle, and Feature Conservation
From negative cleft to external negator
Changes in the argument and event structure of psych verbs in the history of Spanish
References
Index
