Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective

✍ Scribed by Alice C. Harris, Lyle Campbell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 506
Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In this important new work, Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change. Using a cross-linguistic approach, they reveal shared properties of changes across languages, determine what mechanisms lie behind them, and how they correlate to the overall explanation of syntactic change. They draw on data drawn from a wide variety of languages, in particluar those from the Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Kartvelian, and North East Caucasian families.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Preface (page xiii)
List of abbreviations (page xv)
1 Introduction (page 1)
2 The history of historical syntax: major themes (page 14)
3 Overview of a theory of syntactic change (page 48)
4 Reanalysis (page 61)
5 Extension (page 97)
6 Language contact and syntactic borrowing (page 120)
7 Processes that simplify biclausal structures (page 151)
8 Word order (page 195)
9 Alignment (page 240)
10 On the development of complex constructions (page 282)
11 The nature of syntactic change and the issue of causation (page 314)
12 Reconstruction of syntax (page 344)
Appendix (page 377)
Notes (page 380)
References (page 436)
Index of languages and language families (page 478)
Index of scholars (page 482)
Index of subjects (page 485)

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