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almafu_9959229812702883
Format:
1 online resource (352 p.)
ISBN:
90-272-6893-2
Series Statement:
Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS),
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Perspectives on Historical Syntax; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Historical syntax; 1. Historical syntax as an emerging field; 2. Controversial problems of syntactic change and of syntactic reconstruction; 2.1 Mechanisms of syntactic change; 2.2 Feasibility of syntactic reconstruction; 3. Relevance of the present volume for current historical syntax; 3.1 An interdisciplinary approach; 3.2 Syntactic change; 3.3 Syntactic reconstruction; 3.4 Historical syntax and corpus linguistics; 3.5 Historical syntax and language contact; 4. Summary; References
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Syntactic changeManner deixis as source of grammatical markers in Indo-European languages; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic distinctions; 2.1 Demonstratives; 2.2 Additional distinctions in the content and in the deictic dimension; 3. Methodology; 4. The exophoric use: Loss and renewal; 5. From exophoric to anaphoric and cataphoric use; 6. From anaphora to connective; 7. From cataphoric to quotative; 8. From endophoric determiner to comparative marker; 9. From quality deixis to relative clause marker; 10. Summary and conclusions; References; Time for change; 1. Real times in historical linguistics
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1.1 Signals from the past, 1: Absolute dating1.2 Signals from the past, 2: Relative dating; 1.3 Why date at all?; 1.4 Life expectancy of lexicon and grammar; 1.4.1 Time-stability; 1.4.2 Tempo of change; 2. The tempo of grammaticalisation: From noun to adposition, within 16 generations; 2.1 French; 2.2 North Germanic: East and West; 2.2.1 Continental Scandinavian; 2.2.2 Insular Scandinavian; 2.3 Pāli, Sinhalese and Maldivian; 2.4 Elsewhere; 2.5 What takes so much time?; 2.5.1 Social diffusion; 2.5.2 Composite change; Acknowledgments; References; Syntactic reconstruction
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Reconstructing non-canonical argument structure for Proto-Indo-European0. Introduction; 1. Background and assumptions of IECASTP; 1.1 Historical syntax and syntactic reconstruction are worthwhile; 1.2 Use of the Comparative Method (generally and for syntactic units); 1.3 Null-Subjects are no explanation; 2. Collect predicates that appear in Oblique Subject Constructions; 3. Classify predicates; 3.1 "Meaning1" vs. "Meaning2"; 3.2 Case structure; 3.3 Part of speech; 3.4 (Lexical/constructional) diathesis; 3.5 Etymology; 4. Determination of PIE etymology; 4.1 Laryngeal theory
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4.2 Err on the side of providing a PIE etymology4.3 As a principle, do not be too conservative; 5. Find root cognates; 6. Compare/Examine Root Cognate Sets; 6.1 Compare stem formations; 6.2 Compare argument marking; 6.3 Compare semantics; 6.4 Classify sets as ± likely; 7. Summary of results thus far; 7.1 Cognate roots; 7.2 Proposals; 7.3 Nature of OSCs; 7.4 Distribution of OSCs; 7.5 Polysemy expressed by case frames; 7.6 Working hypothesis; 8. Special problems relevant to this work; 8.1 Basic methodological problem; 8.2 Problems existing in other comparative works
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8.3 "New" comparative problems
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-5934-8
Language:
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