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The paradox of grammatical change : perspectives from romance /

Recent years have seen intense debates between formal (generative) and functional linguists, particularly with respect to the relation between grammar and usage. This debate is directly relevant to diachronic linguistics, where one and the same phenomenon of language change can be explained from var...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Detges, Ulrich, Waltereit, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008.
Colección:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 293.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Paradox of Grammatical Change; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SYNTACTIC CHANGE FROM WITHIN AND FROM WITHOUT SYNTAX; ON EXPLAINING THE RISE OF C'EST-CLEFTS IN FRENCH; THE ROLE OF THE PLURAL SYSTEM IN ROMANCE; MORPHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS AFFECTING SYNTACTIC CHANGE; GRAMMATICALISATION WITHIN THE IP-DOMAIN; IMPERFECT SYSTEMS AND DIACHRONIC CHANGE; FROM TEMPORAL TO MODAL; NON-LEXICAL CORE-ARGUMENTS IN BASQUE, GERMAN AND ROMANCE; TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF LANGUAGE CHANGE; SUBJECT INDEX; The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.