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.
The Syntax of Time
The Syntax of 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 The Syntax of Time write by Jacqueline Guéron. This book was released on 2004. The Syntax of Time available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of recent studies by leading scholars that examines the syntactic analysis of time from varying perspectives.
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 2015-02-27. 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 Sámi. 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.
Syntactic Structures
Syntactic Structures - 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 Syntactic Structures write by Noam Chomsky. This book was released on 2020-05-18. Syntactic Structures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No detailed description available for "Syntactic Structures".
Explorations in English Historical Syntax
Explorations in English 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 Explorations in English Historical Syntax write by Hubert Cuyckens. This book was released on 2018-08-15. Explorations in English Historical Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another, however, they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax – and the way they develop over time – are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers’ cognitive apparatus. In doing so, they show that historical syntax, and historical linguistics in general, is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions, the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistics within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition.
