Información General

• Autores: Diane Jonas (ed. lit.), Andrew Garrett (ed. lit.), John Whitman (ed. lit.)
• Editores: Oxford University Press
• Año de publicación: 2011
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9780199582624
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Resumen

• This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field. Leading international scholars report and reflect on the latest research into the nature and outcomes of all aspects of syntactic change including grammaticalization, variation, complementation, syntactic movement, determiner-phrase syntax, pronominal systems, case systems, negation, and alignment. The chapters deploy a variety of generative frameworks, including minimalist and optimality theoretic, and bring these to bear on a wide range of languages: among the latter are typologically distinct examples from Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Greek, Korean and Japanese, Austronesian, Celtic, and Nahuatl. They draw on sociolinguistic evidence where appropriate. Taken as a whole, the volume provides a stimulating overview of key current issues in the investigation of the origins, nature, and outcome of syntactic change.

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Listado de artículos

• • Part I Grammaticalization and Directionality of Change

    • Grammaticalization as optimization

      Paul Kiparsky

      págs. 14-51

      

    • The historical syntax problem: :reanalysis and directionality

      Andrew Garrett

      págs. 52-72

      

    • Grammaticalization of ser and estar in Romance

      Montserrat Batllori Dillet, Francesc Roca Urgell

      págs. 73-92

      

    • A minimalist approach to Jespersen’s Cycle in Welsh

      David Willis

      págs. 93-119

      

  • Part II Change in the Nominal Domain: Internal and External Factors

    • A new perspective on the historical development of English intensifiers and reflexives

      Uffe Bergeton, Roumyana Pancheva

      págs. 122-138

      

    • Language contact and linguistic complexity—the rise of the reflexive pronoun zich in a fifteenth-century Netherlands border dialect

      Gertjan Postma

      págs. 139-159

      

    • An article evolving:: the case of Old Bulgarian

      Mila Vulchanova, Valentin Vulchanov

      págs. 160-178

      

    • Parametric changes in the history of the Greek article

      Cristina Guardiano

      págs. 179-197

      

    • Triggering syntactic change: Inertia and local causes in the history of English genitives

      Paola Crisma

      págs. 198-216

      

  • PART III Change in the Clausal Domain: Cues, Triggers, and Articulation

    • Revisiting Verb (Projection)Raising in Old English

      Eric Haeberli, Susan Pintzuk

      págs. 218-238

      

    • Syntax and discourse in Old and Middle English word order

      Ans van Kemenade, Tanja Milicev

      págs. 239-255

      

    • Subjects in early English: syntactic change as gradual constraint reranking

      Brady Clark

      págs. 256-274

      

    • Coordination, gapping, and the Portuguese inflected infinitive:: the role of structural ambiguity in syntactic change

      Ana Maria Martins

      págs. 275-292

      

    • Negative movement in the history of Norwegian: the evolution of a grammatical virus

      John Sundquist

      págs. 293-311

      

  • Part IV Morphosyntactic Change and Language Type

    • On the gradual development of polysynthesis in Nahuatl

      Jason D. Haugen

      págs. 314-331

      

    • Antipassive in Austronesian alignment change

      Edith Aldridge

      págs. 332-346