Cyclical change continued /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2016]
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Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 227. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Cyclical Change Continued
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Cyclical Change Continued
- 1. What is the cycle?
- 2. Analytic and synthetic
- 3. Recent work and emerging questions
- 4. Contributions to the cycle in this volume
- 5. Conclusion and future directions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- What Cycles When and Why?
- 1. Routinization, phonological erosion, and semantic fading
- 2. Semantic generalization and abstraction
- 3. Pragmatic reinforcement
- 3.1 Distributive cycles
- 3.2 Pronominal cycles
- 3.3 Negative cycles
- 4. Contributions from contact
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Is radical analyticity normal?
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 The problem
- 1.2 The proposal
- 1.3 Garden Path Number One: Radical analyticity
- 1.4 Garden Path Number Two: Cycles
- 2. West Africa
- 2.1 The languages, the problem
- 2.2 A solution?
- 2.3 Evidence, Part One: Language spread
- 2.4 Evidence, Part Two:
- 2.4.1 In syntax: Elimination of contextual rather than inherent morphology
- 2.4.2 In morphology: Grammatical simplification
- 2.4.3 In phonology: Monosyllabic template
- 2.5 Evidence Part Three: Distribution of Analyticity
- 2.5.1 Layers of analyticity
- 2.5.2 Analytic-lite: The Niger-Congo norm
- 2.5.2.1 Syntheticity increases incrementally westward of GYN. New Kwa. New Kwa differs from GYN is that as a group, it is about as analytic as English
- and in some cases vastly less so. Akan varieties retain a degree of concordial affixation within the n
- 2.5.2.2 Syntheticity increases incrementally eastward of GYN. Edoid. In the best-known representative of this group just eastward of Yoruboid and Nupoid, Edo has vestiges of noun class marking, with a singular-plural distinction in animates (Omoregbe & Ai.
- 2.5.2.3 Languages northward of GYN are more synthetic. Idoma. Noun class marking, with a singular/plural distinction, is reduced to one prefixal alternation, and verbal extensions are lost (Abraham 1951
- Adejoh 2012). However, the language is inflected in
- 2.6 What happened to Niger-Congo?
- 2.6.1 From the inside out?
- 2.6.2 Niger-Congo analyticity as evidence of cycles of second-language acquisition
- 2.6.3 Cyclical second language acquisition: Parallels
- 2.7 Two questions, two answers
- 3. Analyticity in the Sinosphere
- 3.1 Rolling back the tape
- 3.2 Language groups rendered analytic by Chinese migration
- 3.3 Proto-Sino-Tibetan over Chinese
- 3.4 Old Chinese: Ordinarily transmitted grammar?
- 3.5 Reading the data
- 3.6 Historical possibilities
- 4. If radical analyticity is so unnatural, why haven't these languages become synthetic?
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- An analytic-synthetic spiral in the history of English
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Terminology
- 3. Data
- 4. Method
- 5. The bird's eye perspective: The big merry-go-round
- 6. The jeweler's eye perspective
- 7. Discussion and Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- The Interaction between the French Subject and Object Cycles
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Subject Cycle in general and in French
- 3. Changes in the third person subject pronoun
- 4. Changes in object pronouns
- 4.1 Acquisition
- 4.2 Three changes
- 5. The Object Cycle in general and in French
- 6. Account and puzzles
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- The Negative Existential Cycle viewed through the lens of comparative data
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Overview of the negative existential cycle
- 3. Application of the cycle on different kinds of samples
- 3.1 Graphic representation of the collected data.
- 3.2 Summary and discussion of the types instantiated in the world-wide sample and in the families
- 3.2.1 Cross-linguisitic frequency of the NEC types
- 3.2.2 Overlaps of types within the NEC
- 3.3 Recapitulation of this section
- 4. Summary of the findings on Slavonic, Polynesian and Uralic
- 5. Diachronic analysis of the comparative data from Berber, Turkic and Dravidian
- 5.1 Berber
- 5.2 Turkic
- 5.3 Dravidian
- 5.3.1 Tamil
- 5.3.2 Kannada
- 6. Summary and concluding discussion
- 6.1 The dominance and also frequent overlap of types with variation
- 6.2 The use of negative existentials in nominalized constructions
- 6.3 Other lexicalizations of negation into the NEC
- 6.4 The constant renewal of the negative existentials
- 6.5 Jespersen Cycle vs. the NEC
- Abbreviations
- Appendix
- References
- Jespersen Cycles in the Mayan, Quechuan and Maipurean languages
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Negation in the Americas
- 3. Negation in the Mayan languages
- 4. Negation in the Quechuan languages
- 5. Negation in the Maipurean languages
- 6. Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- References
- Mayan Negation Cycles
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Mayan languages
- 3. Historical reconstruction
- 3.1 Greater K'iche'an
- 3.2 Greater Mamean
- 3.3 Eastern Mayan
- 4. Ch'olan
- 4.1 Greater Tzeltalan
- 5. Greater Q'anjob'alan
- 6. Central Mayan
- 7. Proto-Mayan
- 8. Conclusion
- 1. Extension
- 2. Division
- 3. Clitic addition
- References
- The diachrony of pronominal agreement
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Referential coherence in discourse
- 3. Demonstratives and definite articles
- 3.1 Demonstrative modifiers
- 3.2 Demonstratives as definite articles
- 3.3 Demonstratives as pronouns
- 4. Pronouns
- 4.1 Independent personal pronouns: Discontinuity and contrast
- 4.2 Clitic anaphoric pronouns vs. zero anaphora
- 4.2.1 Preliminaries.
- 4.2.2 Zero anaphora as default choice for referential continuity
- 4.3 Subject vs. object clitics: In search of a general principle
- 4.4 Pronominal agreement
- 4.5 Cliticization locus: 'Second-position clitics'?
- 5. Flexible word-order and referential coherence
- 6. Discussion
- References
- The Degree Cycle
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical background
- 2.1 Syntactic structure
- 2.2 Semantic categories
- 3. The CP Cycle and thus
- 3.1 Position of clausal thus
- 3.2 Reinforcement loss and renewal
- 4. Degree that and this
- 4.1 Background to this and that
- 4.2 Reanalysis of that: Possible paths
- 5. Degree adverb this (and thus)
- 6. Conclusion
- Sources
- References
- Modality and gradation
- 1. Introduction and background
- 2. Comparative temporality shifting to modality
- 2.1 Essentials of the trajectory: The temporal-based scale and facets of its erosion
- 2.1.1 English rather
- 2.1.2 German eher
- 2.2 Modal elements
- 2.2.1 Rather as a modal relator marking preferences in Present-day English
- 2.2.2 The modal flavors of eher
- 2.2.3 Further modal flavors in rather
- 3. More ordering and scalar structures operated on by eher and rather
- 3.1 Ordering
- 3.2 Modifying adjectives
- 4. More on how rather and eher spiraled twice
- 4.1 From temporal to modal: Why does 'rather' spiral to preference readings?
- 4.2 On the spiral to the modificational use
- and most specially, why it is one
- 4.3 Summary and outlook
- Acknowledgments
- References
- All you need is another 'Need'
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Dürfen and brauchen as modal verbs
- 2.1 Semantics
- 2.2 Morphosyntax
- 2.3 Interim summary
- 3. Bedürfen as a modal predicate
- 3.1 Semantics
- 3.2 Morphosyntax
- 3.3 Interim summary
- 4. The verbal NPI cycle
- 5. Conclusion
- Primary sources
- References
- Appendix.
- The Grammaticalization of Yao and the Future Cycle from Archaic Chinese to Modern Mandarin*
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Yāo as a full verb in Archaic Chinese
- 3. Yào as a modal auxiliary in Ancient Chinese
- 3.1 Deontics and futures
- 3.2 Forming Auxiliary Modals from Full Verbs
- 3.2.1 AspP and MP
- 3.2.2 Late Merge and labeling
- 4. The syntactic structure of deontic and future Yào in Modern Chinese
- 4.1 The ambiguous status of Yào in Modern Chinese
- 4.2 Yào as the head of a mood phrase
- 4.3 Verbal renewal
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Author Index
- Subject and Language Index.