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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gelderen, Elly van (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 227.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.