Mechanisms of Syntactic Change - 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 Mechanisms of Syntactic Change write by Charles N. Li. This book was released on 2014-09-10. Mechanisms of Syntactic Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historical linguistics, the oldest field in linguistics, has been traditionally dominated by phonological and etymological investigations. Only in the late twentieth century have linguists begun to focus their interest and research on the area of syntactic change and the insight it provides on the nature of language. This volume represents the first major contribution on the mechanisms of syntactic change. The fourteen articles that make up this volume were selected from the Symposium on the Mechanisms of Syntactic Change held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1976, one of a series of three conferences sponsored by the National Science Foundation. These papers clearly demonstrate that the generative approach to the study of language does not explain diachronic processes in syntax. This collection is enlightening, provocative, and carefully documented with data drawn from a great variety of language families.
Mechanisms of Syntactic Change
Mechanisms of Syntactic Change - 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 Mechanisms of Syntactic Change write by Charles N. Li. This book was released on 1977. Mechanisms of Syntactic Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Morphology and Universals in Syntactic Change
Morphology and Universals in Syntactic Change - 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 Morphology and Universals in Syntactic Change write by Brian D. Joseph. This book was released on 2016-11-10. Morphology and Universals in Syntactic Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, first published in 1990, is a study of both the specific syntactic changes in the more recent stages of Greek and of the nature of syntactic change in general. Guided by the constraints and principles of Universal Grammar, this hypothesis of this study allows for an understanding of how these changes in Greek syntax occurred and so provides insight into the mechanism of syntactic change. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
Perspectives on Historical Syntax
Perspectives on Historical 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 Perspectives on Historical Syntax write by Carlotta Viti. This book was released on 2015-04-15. Perspectives on Historical Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume discusses topics of historical syntax from different theoretical perspectives, ranging from Indo-European studies to generative grammar, functionalism, and typology. It examines mechanisms of syntactic change such as reanalysis, analogy, grammaticalization, independent drift, and language contact, as well as procedures of syntactic reconstruction. More than one factor is considered to explain a syntactic phenomenon, since it is maintained that an accurate account of multiple causations, of both structural and social nature, is to be preferred to considerations of economy. Special attention is given to the relationship between principles of syntactic theory and a search for data reliability through the methods of corpus linguistics. Data are drawn from a variety of languages, including Hittite, Vedic, Ancient Greek, Latin, Romance, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Austroasiatic, Gulf of Guinea creoles. The book may be therefore of interest for specialists of these languages in addition to scholars and advanced students of syntax and historical linguistics.
Diachronic Slavonic Syntax
Diachronic Slavonic 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 Diachronic Slavonic Syntax write by Björn Hansen. This book was released on 2018-03-05. Diachronic Slavonic Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book is dedicated to the study of the causes and mechanisms of syntactic change in Slavonic languages, including internally motivated syntactic change, syntactic change under contact conditions (structural convergence, pattern replication, shift-induced transfer etc.): It also explores metalinguistic factors such as ideologically driven selection and propagation of syntactic structures.
