The Linguistic Cycle
Language Change and the Language Faculty
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 May 2011
- ISBN 9780199756056
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 163x239x35 mm
- Weight 726 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 36 illustrations 0
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Short description:
In The Linguistic Cycle, Elly van Gelderen examines the linguistic cycle and describes how it offers a unique perspective on the language faculty.
MoreLong description:
Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.
MoreTable of Contents:
Linguistic Cycles and Economy
PART I
The Subject Agreement Cycle
The Object Agreement Cycle
The Copula Agreement Cycle
PART II
The Dependent Marking Cycles
The DP Cycle
PART III
TMA Cycles
The Negative Cycles
PART IV
Typology and Parameters
Language Evolution
Conclusion
References
