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.
Morphology and Universals in Syntactic Change: Evidence from Medieval and Modern Greek
Morphology and Universals in Syntactic Change: Evidence from Medieval and Modern Greek - 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: Evidence from Medieval and Modern Greek write by Brian Daniel Joseph. This book was released on 1978. Morphology and Universals in Syntactic Change: Evidence from Medieval and Modern Greek available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Syntax Over Time
Syntax Over Time - 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 Syntax Over Time write by Theresa Biberauer. This book was released on 2015. Syntax Over Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and the factors that influence it. Converging empirical and theoretical considerations have suggested that apparent instances of syntactic change may be attributable to factors outside syntax proper, such as morphology or information structure. Some even go so far as to propose that there is no such thing as syntactic change, and that all such change in fact takes place in the lexicon or in the phonological component. In this volume, international scholars examine these proposals, drawing on detailed case studies from Germanic, Romance, Chinese, Egyptian, Finnic, Hungarian, and Sami. They aim to answer such questions as: Can syntactic change arise without an external impetus? How can we tell whether a given change is caused by information-structural or morphological factors? What can 'microsyntactic' investigations of changes in individual lexical items tell us about the bigger picture? How universal are the clausal and nominal templates ('cartography'), and to what extent is syntactic structure more generally subject to universal constraints? The book will be of interest to all linguists working on syntactic variation and change, and especially those who believe that historical linguistics and linguistic theory can, and should, inform one another.
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology - 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 Language Universals and Linguistic Typology write by Bernard Comrie. This book was released on 1989-07-15. Language Universals and Linguistic Typology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Universals in Comparative Morphology
Universals in Comparative Morphology - 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 Universals in Comparative Morphology write by Jonathan David Bobaljik. This book was released on 2012-10-05. Universals in Comparative Morphology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An argument for, and account of linguistic universals in the morphology of comparison, combining empirical breadth and theoretical rigor. This groundbreaking study of the morphology of comparison yields a surprising result: that even in suppletion (the wholesale replacement of one stem by a phonologically unrelated stem, as in good-better-best) there emerge strikingly robust patterns, virtually exceptionless generalizations across languages. Jonathan David Bobaljik describes the systematicity in suppletion, and argues that at least five generalizations are solid contenders for the status of linguistic universals. The major topics discussed include suppletion, comparative and superlative formation, deadjectival verbs, and lexical decomposition. Bobaljik's primary focus is on morphological theory, but his argument also aims to integrate evidence from a variety of subfields into a coherent whole. In the course of his analysis, Bobaljik argues that the assumptions needed bear on choices among theoretical frameworks and that the framework of Distributed Morphology has the right architecture to support the account. In addition to the theoretical implications of the generalizations, Bobaljik suggests that the striking patterns of regularity in what otherwise appears to be the most irregular of linguistic domains provide compelling evidence for Universal Grammar. The book strikes a unique balance between empirical breadth and theoretical detail. The phenomenon that is the main focus of the argument, suppletion in adjectival gradation, is rare enough that Bobaljik is able to present an essentially comprehensive description of the facts; at the same time, it is common enough to offer sufficient variation to explore the question of universals over a significant dataset of more than three hundred languages.
