UID:
edocfu_9959229373302883
Format:
1 online resource (343 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-24524-4
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9786612245244
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90-272-8921-2
Series Statement:
Linguistik aktuell =
Content:
Linguistic Cycles are ever present in language change and involve a phrase or word that gradually disappears and is replaced by a new linguistic item. The most well-known cycles involve negatives, where an initial single negative, such as not, is reinforced by another negative, such as no thing, and subjects, where full pronouns are reanalyzed as endings on the verb. This book presents new data and insights on the well-known cyclical changes as well as on less well-known ones, such as the preposition, auxiliary, copula, modal, and complementation cycles. Part I covers the negative cycle with chapters looking in great detail at the steps that are typical in this cycle. Part II focuses on pronouns, auxiliaries, and the left periphery. Part III includes work on modals, prepositions, and complementation. The book ends with a psycholinguistic chapter. This book brings together linguists from a variety of theoretical frameworks and contributes to new directions in work on language change.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Cyclical change, an introduction / Elly van Gelderen -- Jespersen recycled / Jack Hoeksema -- The Jespersen cycles / Johan van der Auwera -- The negative cycle in early and modern Russian / Olena Tsurska -- Jespersen off course? : the case of contemporary Afrikaans negation / Theresa Biberauer -- Weak pronouns in Italian: instances of a broken cycle? / Diana Vedovato -- The subject cycle of pronominal auxiliaries in old north Russian / Kyongjoon Kwon -- Two instances of a broken cycle : sentential particles in Old Italian / Cecilia Poletto -- The copula cycle / Terje Lohndal -- Rather: on a modal cycle / Remus Gergel -- Cycles of complementation in the Mayan languages / Clifton Pye -- The preposition cycle in English / Cathleen Waters -- The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science / Roeland Hancock and Thomas G. Bever.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-5529-6
Language:
English
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