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Relative Clauses in Time and Space : a case study in the methods of diachronic typology.
This book presents a comprehensive survey of historically attested relative clause constructions from a diachronic typological perspective. Systematic integration of historical data and a typological approach demonstrates how typology and historical linguistics can each benefit from attention to the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2012.
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| Colección: | Typological studies in language.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Relative Clauses in Time and Space; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 1.1 What is diachronic typology?; 1.1.1 Typology as a tool for investigating language change; 1.1.2 Historical linguistics as a tool for investigating typology; 1.2 About this book; 1.2.1 Demonstrating the methods of diachronic typology; 1.2.2 Why use relative clauses as a case study? Some methodological considerations; 1.3 A brief introduction to the relative clause; 1.3.1 What is a relative clause?
- 1.3.2 The types and subtypes of relative clauses1.3.3 Relative clause markers; 1.3.4 Relative clauses around the world; 1.3.5 Relative clauses through time; 2. Sources and extension of grammatical markers; 2.1 Types of relationship between grammatical markers; 2.2 Case studies of sources and extensions; 2.2.1 Pronouns; 2.2.2 Classifiers and generic nouns; 2.2.3 Discourse markers; 2.2.4 Possessives; 2.2.5 Comparatives; 2.2.6 Adverbial clauses; 2.2.7 Complement clauses; 2.2.8 General subordination; 2.2.9 Adjective markers; 2.2.10 General linkers; 2.2.11 Less well-documented extensions.
- 2.3 Conclusions: What came from where, when and why?3. Other types of relationship between grammatical markers; 3.1 Redistribution of markers; 3.2 Loss of markers; 3.2.1 Loss and general typological change; 3.3 Formal changes; 3.3.1 From invariant complementiser to inflecting pronoun and vice versa; 3.3.2 From free-standing marker to verb affix; 3.4.1 Relative clause markers in space and time; 3.4.2 Relative clause markers and language contact; 3.4.3 Implications for the methods of diachronic typology; 4. Syntactic change in the development of RC constructions.
- 4.1 The origins of embedded clauses4.2 Deranking and balancing of verb forms; 4.3 Correlatives; 4.4 Change in clause order; 4.4.1 Relative clauses that follow the head; 4.4.2 Relative clauses that precede the head; 4.5 Syntax: What's where, when and why?; 4.5.1 Stability; 4.5.2 Implications for the methods of diachronic typology; 5. Relevant factors in language change: The importance of contact; 5.1 'Basic word order' as a factor in relative clause change; 5.2 Other word order 'harmonies' as a factor in relative clause change; 5.3 Embedding as a factor in relative clause change.
- 5.4 The relationship between grammatical marker type and syntactic change5.5 The relevance of language family affiliation to relative clause change; 5.6 Language contact and relative clause change; 5.7 The relative influence of internal and external factors; 6. Conclusions; 6.1 What's where when? Mapping relative clauses in three dimensions; 6.2 and why: Processes and mechanisms; 6.3 Language contact; 6.4 Implications for the structure of relative clauses; 6.5 Implications for taxonomies of relative clause types; 6.6 The methods of diachronic typology; References; Appendices.