Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics; 23;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 July 2017
- ISBN 9780198747840
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages348 pages
- Size 242x167x25 mm
- Weight 674 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume addresses syntactic change at the macro and the micro level, and explores how these different levels of change are related. It includes numerous case studies of changes in syntactic constructions including relative clauses, verb second, and negation, in a range of languages.
MoreLong description:
The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change at different granularities. The language-particular component of a grammar is now usually assumed to be nothing more than the specification of the grammatical properties of a set of lexical items. Accordingly, grammar change must reduce to lexical change. And yet these micro-changes can cumulatively alter the typological character of a language (a macro-change). A central puzzle in diachronic syntax is how to relate macro-changes to micro-changes. Several chapters in this volume describe specific micro-changes: changes in the syntactic properties of a particular lexical item or class of lexical items. Other chapters explore links between micro-change and macro-change, using devices such as grammar competition at the individual and population level, recurring diachronic pathways, and links between acquisition biases and diachronic processes. This book is therefore a great companion to the recent literature on the micro- versus macro-approaches to parameters in synchronic syntax. One of its important contributions is the demonstration of how much we can learn about synchronic linguistics through the way languages change: the case studies included provide diachronic insight into many syntactic constructions that have been the target of extensive recent synchronic research, including tense, aspect, relative clauses, stylistic fronting, verb second, demonstratives, and negation. Languages discussed include several archaic and contemporary Romance and Germanic varieties, as well as Greek, Hungarian, and Chinese, among many others.
MoreTable of Contents:
Micro-change and macro-change in diachronic syntax
In defence of the child innovator
Where do relative specifiers come from?
Diachronic interpretations of word order parameter cohesion
The rise and fall of Hungarian complex tenses
Modelling transient states in language change
Modelling interactions between morphosyntactic changes
From Latin to Modern French: A punctuated shift
Case in diachrony: Or, why Greek is not English
Leftward Stylistic Displacement (LSD) in Medieval French
Diagnosing embedded V2 in Old English and Old French
The pragmatics of demonstratives in Germanic
Persistence as a diagnostic of grammatical status: The case of Middle English negation
The origins of the Romance analytic passive: Evidence from word order
Reconciling syntactic and post-syntactic complementizer agreement
On the grammaticalization of temporal-aspectual heads: The case of German versprechen 'promise'
