The relationship between changes in (inflectional) morphology and the consequences of these changes in syntax has been a perennial issue in historical linguistics. The contributors to this volume address the issue of how to model the phenomena of syntactic and morphological change within recent frameworks, including the Minimalist Programme. Topics addressed include the way categories like aspect and mood interact over time with the valency of verbs; the nature of changes in verb placement; the changing division of labor between different types of argument marking--case, word order, clitics, agreement. The volume contains chapters by many of the leading scholars in the field. There is a substantial introduction which reviews the development of ideas in generative historical syntax over the last fifteen years, and assesses the distinctive properties of the generative position. The volume will appeal to those working in theoretical syntax, and also to specialists in the history of German, French and the Romance and Germanic languages more broadly.
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The contributors to this volume, including many of the leading figures in diachronic generative syntax, address the issue of how to model the phenomena of syntactic and morphological change within recent frameworks, in particular the Minimalist Program. There is a substantial introduction which reviews the development of ideas in generative historical syntax over the last 15 years, and assesses the distinctive properties of the generative position.
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The relation between changes in (inflectional) morphology and consequences thereof in the syntax has been a perennial issue in historical linguistics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
referential argument position, restricted inversion dialect, impersonal bisogna, film toont, genitive government, auxiliary faire, complement clitic pronouns, morphosyntactic case, strong formal feature, second position phenomena, deontic modal auxiliary, rich case morphology, clitic phenomena, verbal genitive, inverted imperatives, morphological case system, morphological trigger, abstract case features, clitic distribution, double base hypothesis, imperative inversion, positional case, deontic reading, formal licenser, clitic categories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Belfast English, Modern English, West Germanic, Middle English, Standard English, Middle Dutch, Old English, Modern German, Modern Italian, Minimalist Programme, Ancient Greek, Middle French, Old Italian, Nigel Vincent, Nuclear Scope, Mainland Scandinavian, Semantic Form, West Saxon, Existential Closure, Old French, Restrictive Clause, Modern Icelandic, Modern Spanish, Modern Greek, Old High German New!
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referential argument position, restricted inversion dialect, impersonal bisogna, film toont, genitive government, auxiliary faire, complement clitic pronouns, morphosyntactic case, strong formal feature, second position phenomena, deontic modal auxiliary, rich case morphology, clitic phenomena, verbal genitive, inverted imperatives, morphological case system, morphological trigger, abstract case features, clitic distribution, double base hypothesis, imperative inversion, positional case, deontic reading, formal licenser, clitic categories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Belfast English, Modern English, West Germanic, Middle English, Standard English, Middle Dutch, Old English, Modern German, Modern Italian, Minimalist Programme, Ancient Greek, Middle French, Old Italian, Nigel Vincent, Nuclear Scope, Mainland Scandinavian, Semantic Form, West Saxon, Existential Closure, Old French, Restrictive Clause, Modern Icelandic, Modern Spanish, Modern Greek, Old High German New!
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- Verb Movement by David Lightfoot on 4 pages
- Historical Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Theodora Bynon on 4 pages
- The Representation of (In)definiteness (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Eric J. Reuland in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Language Typology and Syntactic Description, Volume I: Clause Structure (Language Typology & Syntactic Description) by Timothy Shopen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Modern Icelandic Syntax, Volume 24 (Syntax and Semantics) (Syntax and Semantics) (Syntax & Semantics) by Joan Maling in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Germanic Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys) by Wayne Harbert on 4 pages
- Syntactic Change: A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by Ian Roberts in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language (Oxford Linguistics) by Charles D. Yang in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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