Diachronic clues to synchronic grammar /

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This volume emphasizes a new line of thinking in generative grammar which acknowledges that certain synchronic properties of languages can only be fully understood if diachronic data is taken into consideration. The central topics addressed in this collection of papers are (1) a critical assessment...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fuss, Eric, Trips, Carola
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2004.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 72.
Temas:
Linguistic change.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Changement linguistique.
Grammaire comparée et générale.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Ancient Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Linguistic change
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC page
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Generative approaches to diachronic phenomena
  • 2. The logical problem of language change
  • 3. On the status of diachronic explanations
  • 4. The contributions
  • Notes
  • References
  • On the development of possessive determiners
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical background
  • 3. The DP layer in Old English
  • 4. Possessive pronouns in Old English
  • 4.1. Morphology and distribution
  • 4.2. Word order patterns in Old English.
  • 5. Possessive pronouns in Middle English
  • 6. From XP to clitic
  • 7. Possessive pronouns in German and French
  • 7.1. German
  • 7.2. French
  • 8. Summary
  • Notes
  • References
  • Diachronic clues to pro-drop and complementizer agreement in Bavarian
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The diachronic development of Agr-on-C in Bavarian
  • 2.1. 2sg -st
  • 2.2. 2pl -ts
  • 2.3. 1pl -ma in Lower Bavarian
  • 3. Towards an analysis
  • 3.1. A synchronic account of complementizer agreement in Germanic
  • 3.2. The diachrony of Agr-on-C: syntactic aspects
  • 3.3. Morphological aspects
  • 4. Conclusions
  • Notes.
  • 2. The change from OV to VO in English
  • 2.1. Differences between German and English
  • 2.2. Word order and peripheral rules in the older stages of Germanic
  • 3. Unmarked word order and the Universal Base Hypothesis
  • 4. Options in grammar and the role of prosodic constraints
  • 5. Stylistic change? The development of the German sentence bracket
  • 5.1. The role of information-structure
  • 5.2. The grammar of focus
  • Notes
  • References
  • The EPP, fossilized movement and reanalysis
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Post-verbal modals in southeast Asia.
  • 3. Taiwanese, tone sandhi and post-verbal potential modals
  • 4. Cantonese
  • 5. Triggers for movement, fossilization and the EPP
  • 6. Reversal or reanalysis?
  • 7. Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • Restructuring and the development of functional categories
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Resultative Verb Constructions/RVCs
  • 3. V2-object predication in RVCs
  • 4. The historical development of RVCs
  • 5. Object/V2 re-positioning and directionality
  • 6. Summary and general conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

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