Syntactic change : toward a theory of historical syntax /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Faarlund, Jan Terje, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, 1990.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 50.
Temas:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Historical linguistics.
Scandinavian languages > Grammar, Historical.
Syntaxe.
Linguistique historique.
Langues scandinaves > Grammaire historique.
historical linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Historical linguistics
Scandinavian languages > Grammar, Historical
Syntaxis.
Historische taalwetenschap.
Scandinavische talen.
Langues scandinaves > Syntaxe.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 1.1. The subject-matter of diachronic syntax
  • 1.2. The logic of syntactic change
  • 1.3. The North Germanic languages and dialects
  • 1.4. Theoretical framework
  • 1.5. The data
  • 2. Explanation and syntactic change
  • 2.1. The locus of linguistic change
  • 2.2. The meaning of “explanationâ€?
  • 2.3. Explaining linguistic change
  • 2.4. Motivation and predictability
  • 2.5. Formal and functional explanations â€? a summary
  • 3. Functional change
  • 3.1. Synchronic variation and diachronic change3.2. Word order typology
  • 3.3. The verb-second constraint
  • 3.4. The expletive topic
  • 4. Formal change
  • 4.1. Predicate and argument
  • 4.2. Grammatical function and semantic role
  • 4.3. Configurationality
  • 4.4. Prototypicality
  • 5. Some consequences
  • 5.1. Case systems
  • 5.2. Passive
  • 5.3. “Impersonalâ€? constructions
  • 5.4. From preposition to verbal particle
  • 5.5. The expletive subject
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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