Diachronic Syntax
Models and Mechanisms
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 February 2001
- ISBN 9780198250265
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 242x163x26 mm
- Weight 701 g
- Language English
- Illustrations linguistic tree diagrams 0
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Short description:
This book demonstrates the pivotal position of historical syntax within the larger domain of research into the nature, use, and acquisition of language. It shows how current work in historical syntax is responsive to theoretical advances in linguistic theory, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and theories of language use, as well as to less adjacent fields such as statistical techniques and evolutionary biology.
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Historical syntax occupies a pivotal position within the larger field of research into the nature, use, and acquisition of language. It is responsive to theoretical advances in linguistic theory, language acquisition, and theories of language use, as well as to less adjacent fields such as statistical techniques and evolutionary biology.
Linguistic theory has undergone deep changes since the early 1990s, given the widespread impact of Chomsky's Minimalist Programme, Kayne's Antisymmetry Theory, and Kayne's Theory of Overt Movement. This work has brought into sharper focus questions concerning the architecture of linguistic theory that have a direct impact on our understanding of the process of change. At the same time, the recently developed framework of Optimality Theory, which has had a major influence in phonology, is beginning to provide new insights and raise new questions as it is applied to syntax and historical change. This collection of new writing by largely generative-based syntacticians advances this work.
This book contains selected material from the Fifth Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DIGS 5) held in 1998. The chapters have been chosen to reflect developments in the study of language change and variation, and to exemplify work in a wide range of languages, including Germanic, Romance, Celtic, Slavic, and Sinitic. The book is divided into parts dealing with theoretical frameworks, comparative change, features and categories, and movement. A substantial opening chapter by the editors provides a critical overview of the subject and introduces the following chapters.
... provides an excellent survey of recent developments in the field ... The editors have assembled a collection of very substantial papers in which extensive databases, sophisticated statistical analyses, and clever theoretical interpretations are abundantly present.
Table of Contents:
Syntactic Change: Theory and Method
Part I: Frameworks for the Understanding of Change
Competition and Correspondence in Syntactic Change: Null Arguments in Latin and Romance
Jespersen's Cycle Revisited: Formal Properties of Grammaticalization
Evolutionary Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax
Part II: The Comparative Basis of Diachronic Syntax
Adjuncts and the Syntax of Subjects in Old and Middle English
Verb-Object Order in Early Middle English
Null Subjects in Middle English Existentials
Part III: Mechanisms of Syntactic Change
Polarity Items in Romance: Underspecification and Lexical Change
Relabelling
The Value of Definite Determiners from Old Spanish to Modern Spanish
From OV to VO in Swedish
The Evolution of Do-Support in English Imperatives
Interacting Movements in the History of Icelandic
Verb Movement in Slavonic Conditionals
