UID:
almafu_9960117215002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvii, 488 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-139-08516-6
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0-511-62055-1
Serie:
Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 74
Inhalt:
In this major new work Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of linguistic change. Systematic cross-linguistic comparison of syntactic change across a wide variety of languages is used to construct hypotheses about the universals and limits of language change more generally. In particular, the authors seek to move closer towards describing the range of causes of syntactic change to develop an understanding of the mechanisms of syntactic change, and to provide an understanding of why some languages undergo certain changes and not others. The authors draw on languages as diverse as Pipil and French, Georgian and Estonian, and the data presented is one of the book's great strengths. Rigor and precision are combined here with a great breadth of scholarship to produce a unique resource for the study of linguistic change, which will be of use to scholars and students alike.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1.1 Goals of a theory of diachronic syntax -- 1.2 Orientation to the organization and contents of the book -- 1.3 On the relation to synchronic syntax -- 1.4 On prediction -- 1.5 On explanation -- 1.6 Characteristics of a theory of syntactic change -- 1.7 The method employed -- 1.8 The syntactic framework -- 1.9 The evidence -- The history of historical syntax: major themes -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Foundations of the diachronic study of syntax -- 2.3 Historical syntax since 1957 -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Overview of a theory of syntactic change -- 3.1 Basic assumptions about language change -- 3.2 Outline of a theory of syntactic change -- 3.3 On mechanisms of syntactic change -- 3.4 On universally available syntactic constructions -- 3.5 On universal principles -- 3.6 The role of operations in an account of syntactic change -- 3.7 Why this theory? -- Reanalysis -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Examples of reanalysis -- 4.3 Preludes to reanalysis -- 4.4 Reanalysis and actualization -- 4.5 Some types of change that may be effected by reanalysis -- 4.6 Summary -- Appendix: preverbs in Kartvelian -- Extension -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Some examples of extension -- 5.3 Towards a constraint on extension -- 5.4 Variation, markedness, and "S" curves -- 5.5 Blending and contamination -- 5.6 Conclusion -- Language contact and syntactic borrowing -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Proposed universals (and other general claims) concerning grammatical borrowing -- 6.3 Moravcsik's universals of borrowing -- 6.4 Word order and borrowing -- 6.5 Case studies -- 6.6 Explanations and conclusions -- Processes that simplify biclausal structures -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Highlighting constructions -- 7.3 Quotation constructions -- 7.4 Clause fusion -- 7.5 Universal principles -- Word order.
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8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 On the order of morphemes in words -- 8.3 Construction reanalysis -- 8.4 Three views of the causes of word order change -- 8.5 Towards an account of word order and word order change -- 8.6 Summary: types of word order change and their causes -- Alignment -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Origins of alignment change -- 9.3 Consistency in alignment -- 9.4 A universal of alignment change -- On the development of complex constructions -- 10.1 The problem -- 10.2 The traditional view: hypotaxis from parataxis -- 10.3 A hypothesis of the development of complex constructions -- 10.4 The relation between questions and subordinate clauses -- 10.5 On the ultimate origins of complex constructions -- 10.6 Conclusion -- The nature of syntactic change and the issue of causation -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Explanation, causation, and prediction -- 11.3 Regularity -- 11.4 Directionality -- Reconstruction of syntax -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Correspondences: preliminaries for syntactic reconstruction -- 12.3 Reconstructing -- 12.4 Obstacles and purported obstacles -- 12.5 Conclusions -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index of languages and language families -- Index of scholars -- Index of subjects.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-47294-6
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-47881-2
Sprache:
Englisch
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