Diachronic Changes Underlying Synchronic Distribution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diachronic Changes Underlying Synchronic Distribution write by I-Hsuan Chen. This book was released on 2018-05-17. Diachronic Changes Underlying Synchronic Distribution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book deals with synchronic variation in Chinese through a diachronic lens, based on the evidence from a quantitative, longitudinal corpus study. Departing from the traditional analysis in diachronic changes in Chinese linguistics, the cognitive constructionist approach employed in this book is able to capture incremental changes by combining syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Topics such as word order, focus, scopes of quantifiers, information structure, and negation have been important issues in linguistics, but they are rarely integrated as a whole. The book makes their diachronic interactions available to the students and researchers in the fields of general and Chinese linguistics.
Diachronic Construction Grammar
Diachronic Construction Grammar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diachronic Construction Grammar write by Jóhanna Barðdal. This book was released on 2015-07-15. Diachronic Construction Grammar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do constructions change in general, formally and/or semantically, and with what implications for the language system as a whole? This volume offers a broad introduction to the confluence of Construction Grammar and historical syntax, and also detailed case studies of various instances of syntactic change modeled within Construction Grammar. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar as a theory is particularly well suited for modeling historical changes in morphosyntax, and it also documents challenging new phenomena that require a theoretical account within any competing framework of syntactic change.
Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax write by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza. This book was released on 2019. Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with contributions by world-renowned scholars as well as some emerging scholars in the field, covers a wide variety of approaches to grammatical categories and categorial change, constructions and constructional change, and comparative and typological research. Each of the fourteen chapters, based on the analysis of authentic data, highlights the wealth and breadth of the study of English syntax (including morphosyntax), both theoretically and empirically, from Old English through to the present day. The result is a body of research which will add substantially to the current study of the syntax of the English language, by stimulating further research in the field.
Synchrony and Diachrony
Synchrony and Diachrony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Synchrony and Diachrony write by Anna Giacalone Ramat. This book was released on 2013-05-31. Synchrony and Diachrony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and linguistic variation. What has traditionally been treated as a dichotomy is now seen rather in terms of a dynamic interface. The contributions to this volume aim at exploring the most adequate tools to describe and understand the manifestations of this dynamic interface. Thorough analyses are offered on hot topics of the current linguistic debate, which are all involved in the analysis of the synchrony-diachrony interface: gradualness of change, synchronic variation and gradience, constructional approaches to grammaticalization, the role of contact-induced transfer in language change, analogy. Case studies are discussed from a variety of languages and dialects including English, Welsh, Latin, Italian and Italian dialects, Dutch, Swedish, German and German dialects, Hungarian. This volume is of great interest to a broad audience within linguistics, including historical linguistics, typology, pragmatics, and areal linguistics.
Spreading Patterns
Spreading Patterns - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spreading Patterns write by Hendrik De Smet. This book was released on 2013-01-17. Spreading Patterns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the emergence and spread of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the present day
