Format:
XV, 236 Seiten
,
Diagramme
ISBN:
9789027207975
Series Statement:
Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today volume 265
Content:
"In this book, the traditional definition of 'grammaticalization' is challenged in the light of current developments in grammar theory. The main innovation of this approach is the focus on the feature composition of lexical items. From this perspective, the loss of past participle agreement in Catalan is analyzed on the basis of newly collected data as a consequence of the grammaticalization of formal features. The emergence of syntactic formal features through grammaticalization is understood as a last-resort repair mechanism for pragmatically costly derivations. Further far-reaching implications of this proposal under discussion are: the interplay between (re-)parametrization, economy, cyclicity and grammaticalization; the characterization of free variation under a modified version of the Interface Hypothesis; and the precedence of syntactic over morphological change. This book is not only of interest to specialists in Romance languages but also to anyone working on diachronic linguistics"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027260468
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Vega Vilanova, Jorge Past participle agreement Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020 ISBN 9789027260468
Language:
English
Keywords:
Katalanisch
;
Partizip Perfekt
;
Syntaktische Kongruenz
;
Partizip Perfekt
;
Syntaktische Kongruenz
;
Sprachwandel
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