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The diachrony of grammar /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Diachrony of Grammar; Title page; LCC data; In Memoriam; Table of contents; Preface; PART I. Perspective; Historical syntax and synchronic morphology; 1. Introduction,) ; 2. Syntactic change in the verb phrase; 2.1 Bantu verb affixes; 2.2 Amharic object pronouns; 2.3 Romance tense-aspect affixes; 2.4 Negative affixes in French, English and Ute; 2.5 Incorporated objects in VP nominalizations; 3. Syntactic change in the noun phrase; 3.1 Swahili relative pronouns; 3.2 Amharic adpositions; 3.3 Germanic noun compounds; 3.4 Independent pronouns and pronominal agreement.
- 4. A wild safari through the jungle of English derivational morphology4.1 Causative suffixes; 4.2 Nominalized verb-phrase compounds; 4.3 Pre-verbal incorporated prepositions; 4.4 OV nominalizations and the GEN-N noun-phrase order; 4.5 The noun-to-adjective derivational suffix -ly; 4.6 The noun-to-verb derivational prefix en-; 4.7 Noun-to-noun derivational suffixes; 5. Discussion; 5.1 The morphogenesis cycle and the attrition of bound morphemes; 5.2 Do all bound morphemes come from lexical words?; 5.3 Historical syntax and synchronic morphology; 5.4 Moral; Abbreviations of grammatical terms.
- From discourse to syntax: Grammar as a processing strategy1. Introduction ; 2. The diachrony of syntacticization; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 From topic to subject; 2.3 From topicalization to passivization; 2.4 From conjoined topic clause to embedded relative clause; 2.5 From conjoined to embedded verb complements; 2.6 Resultative verb compounds in Mandarin; 2.7 Complex possessive constructions; 2.8 Focus clauses and WH-questions; 2.9 From clause-chaining to serial-verb clauses; 2.10 Interim summary; 3. Pidgin vs. Creole language; 4. Child vs. adult language.
- 5. Informal oral vs. formal-written adult discourse6. Discussion; 6.1 Coding modalities and developmental trends; 6.2 The diachronic cycle; 6.3 Diachrony and typological diversity; 6.4 Universality, evolution and explanation; 6.5 Grammar as an automated processing strategy ; Abbreviation of grammatical terms; Where does crazy syntax come from?; 1. Introduction ; 2. Crazy synchronic phonology; 3. Case studies; 3.1 The Kimbundu passive revisited; 3.2 The Kihungan cleft and WH-question revisited; 3.3 German REL-clauses revisited.
- 3.4 Unintended consequences of compressing chained clauses into serial-verb clauses3.4.1 The ba-construction in Mandarin Chines; 3.4.2 The de-verbal conjunction of Yoruba; 3.4.3 Word-order in Ijo; 3.5 German word-order and tense-aspect renovation; 3.6 The Romance and Bantu object pronouns revisited; 3.7 No. Uto-Aztecan nominalized subordinate clauses; 4. Discussion; 4.1 Naturalness: Commonality vs. ease of processing; 4.2 The temporal curve of the diachronic cycle; 4.3 Naturalness: Synchrony vs. diachrony; Abbreviation of grammatical terms; PART II. Out of Africa.