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Lang. change at synt-sem. interf. tilsm 278 hc e-book.
This volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages and address the question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2014.
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| Colección: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs TiLSM.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface and acknowledgements; Table of contents; 1 Language change at the syntax-semantics interface. Perspectives and challenges; 2 Semantic and formal features: Feature economy in language change; 3 Linking syntax and semantics of adnominal possession in the history of German; 4 Most historically; 5 The "indefinite article" from cardinal to operator to expletive; 6 The Greek Septuagint and language change at the syntax-semantics interface: from null to "pleonastic" object pronouns; 7 The agreement of collective nouns in the history of Ancient Greek and German.
- 8 Vedic local particles at the syntax-semantics interface9 Aspect shifts in Indo-Aryan and trajectories of semantic change; 10 The development of conditional should in English; 11 The Greek Jespersen's cycle: Renewal, stability and structural microelevation; Subject index.