Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective

✍ Scribed by Alice C. Harris; Lyle Campbell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 507
Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This study utilizes a cross-linguistic approach to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change. It reveals shared properties of changes across languages, determines what mechanisms lie behind them, and how they correlate to the overall explanation of syntactic change.

✦ Table of Contents

Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. The history of historical syntax: major themes
3. Overview of a theory of syntactic change
4. Reanalysis
5. Extension
6. Language contact and syntactic borrowing
7. Processes that simplify biclausal structures
8. Word order
9. Alignment
10. On the development of complex construction
11. The nature of syntactic change and the issue of causation
12. Reconstruction of syntax
Appendix
Notes
References
Index of languages and language families
Index of scholars
Index of subjects

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