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Language change at the syntax-semantics interface /
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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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
278. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- 1. Language change at the syntax-semantics interface. Perspectives and challenges / Gianollo, Chiara ; Jäger, Agnes ; Penka, Doris
- 2. Semantic and formal features: Feature economy in language change / Gelderen, Elly van
- 3. Linking syntax and semantics of adnominal possession in the history of German / Kasper, Simon
- 4. Most historically / Gergel, Remus
- 5. The "indefinite article" from cardinal to operator to expletive / Crisma, Paola
- 6. The Greek Septuagint and language change at the syntax-semantics interface: from null to "pleonastic" object pronouns / Lavidas, Nikolaos
- 7. The agreement of collective nouns in the history of Ancient Greek and German / Birkenes, Magnus Breder ; Sommer, Florian
- 8. Vedic local particles at the syntaxsemantics interface / Casaretto, Antje ; Schneider, Carolin
- 9. Aspect shifts in Indo-Aryan and trajectories of semantic change / Condoravdi, Cleo ; Deo, Ashwini
- 10. The development of conditional should in English / Breitbarth, Anne
- 11. The Greek Jespersen's cycle: Renewal, stability and structural microelevation / Chatzopoulou, Katerina
- Subject index.