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Verbs and Diachronic Syntax

Author : I.G. Roberts
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 079231705X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (923 download)

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Book Synopsis Verbs and Diachronic Syntax by : I.G. Roberts

Download or read book Verbs and Diachronic Syntax written by I.G. Roberts and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the development of a number of English and French constructions involving various kinds of subject-verb inversion. The analysis is framed in terms of the principles-and-parameters approach to syntactic theory, and provides strong support for the adoption of this approach in the description and explanation of language change. The book falls into three parts. The first presents an overall framework for the analysis of inversion constructions and motivates, on the basis of synchronic data, several parameters which distinguish among the various Romance and Germanic languages. The second part shows how several near-simultaneous syntactic changes in the history of French can be explained as a change in one of the parameters introduced in Chapter One. A notable aspect of this analysis is the way in which the distribution of null subjects is shown to relate to verb-placement. The third part of the book treats verb-movement in the history of English, arguing in detail that the attested changes in this area are due to a change in the internal structure of `Infl', a proposal which has important ramifications for the theory of functional heads. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on the theoretical questions raised by language change. In this connection the two notions of diachronic reanalysis and parametric change are distinguished. Verbs and Diachronic Syntax will interest all theoretical linguists as well as specialists in the history of English, history of French, Germanic philology and Romance philology.

Verbs and Diachronic Syntax

Author : I.G. Roberts
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940112910X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Verbs and Diachronic Syntax written by I.G. Roberts and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines several strands of my work, both individually and in collaboration with various people, over the last couple of years. To a very large extent, I have been inspired by the many talks, classes, appointments and other interactions that took place in the exciting intellectual environ ment that grew up among the linguists working in Geneva in the period 1989-90. It is impossible to mention by name everyone who influenced the devel opment of this material, but I'd particularly like to thank the students in my class 'linguistique diachronique' during that period, who had to suffer through preliminary versions of much of this book, and often seemed to understand what I was getting at better than I did. Luigi Rizzi did more than anyone else to create the unique atmosphere here in the last couple of years, and so he deserves our gratitude for that; he was also my collaborator on the synchronic work on French inversion that inspired much of this book; he also read the whole manuscript in draft form and gave detailed comments; he is also, as anyone working in current comparative syntax knows, a wellspring of knowledge, ideas and inspiration. Maria-Teresa Guasti also read the entire manuscript and gave me invaluable comments. Sten Vikner was a great help, for much more than just Danish data. Special thanks also to Adriana Belletti, Anna Cardinaletti, Liliane Haegeman and Cecilia Poletto.

The Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax of the English Verb-particle Combination

Author : Marion Elenbaas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax of the English Verb-particle Combination by : Marion Elenbaas

Download or read book The Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax of the English Verb-particle Combination written by Marion Elenbaas and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses

Author : Folke Josephson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027205701
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses by : Folke Josephson

Download or read book Interdependence of Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses written by Folke Josephson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this volume is the interdependence of diachrony and synchrony in the investigation of syntactic structure. A diverse set of modern and ancient languages is investigated from this perspective, including Hittite, the Classical languages, Old Norse, Coptic, Bantu languages, Australian languages and Creoles. A variety of topics are covered, including TAM, diathesis, valency, case marking, cliticization, and grammaticalization. This volume should be of interest tosyntacticians, typologists, and historical linguists with an interest in syntax and morphology.

The Syntax of Serial Verbs

Author : Mark Sebba
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902725222X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntax of Serial Verbs by : Mark Sebba

Download or read book The Syntax of Serial Verbs written by Mark Sebba and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is about the chains of verbs commonly found in Creole Languages, West African languages, in particular the Kwa sub-group of Niger-Congo, Chinese and certain other languages and have acquired the name of 'serial verbs' in the literature. As a case study, the serial constructions of Sranan, a creole language of Surinam with an English lexical base, are examined in detail.

Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs

Author : Folke Josephson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789027206015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs by : Folke Josephson

Download or read book Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Verbs written by Folke Josephson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diachronic perspective combined with a comparative approach provides a profound knowledge of the typology of the verb and other typological questions and will serve researchers, advanced and other students in a way that has rarely been encountered before.

English Historical Linguistics 2006: Syntax and morphology

Author : Maurizio Gotti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027248109
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis English Historical Linguistics 2006: Syntax and morphology by : Maurizio Gotti

Download or read book English Historical Linguistics 2006: Syntax and morphology written by Maurizio Gotti and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers selected for this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). At that important event, alongside studies of phonology, lexis, semantics and dialectology (presented in two companion volumes in this series), many innovative contributions focused on syntax and morphology. A carefully peer-reviewed selection, including one of the plenary lectures, appears here in print for the first time, bearing witness to the quality of the scholarly interest in this field of research. In all the contributions, well-established methods combine with new theoretical approaches in an attempt to shed more light on phenomena that have hitherto remained unexplored, or have only just begun to be investigated. State-of-the-art tools, such as electronic corpora and concordancing software, are employed consistently, ensuring a methodological homogeneity of the contributions.

The Syntax and Morphology of English Verbs

Author : Joseph Embley Emonds
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110734370
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntax and Morphology of English Verbs by : Joseph Embley Emonds

Download or read book The Syntax and Morphology of English Verbs written by Joseph Embley Emonds and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a detailed empirical approach to constructing grammatical analysis and theory, in particular the analysis of English verbs. It develops an integrated formal description of the English verbal system and offers several theoretical advances in the treatment of verbs that have escaped formulation until now.

Diachronic Syntax

Author : Susan Pintzuk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198250272
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Diachronic Syntax written by Susan Pintzuk and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text reflects developing trends in linguistic research, specifically the study of syntax and its pivotal position in current theories of language acquisition.

Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions

Author : Carol Lord
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027276854
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions by : Carol Lord

Download or read book Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions written by Carol Lord and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-08-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in syntactic, morphological and lexical change. The process by which verbs lose lexical semantic content and develop case-marking functions is described; it is argued that the change is directional, from verb to preposition (or postposition) to affix, along a grammaticalization continuum. This same grammaticalization process is shown to result in the development of complementizers, adverbial subordinators, conjunctions, adverbs and auxiliaries from verbs. Strong parallels across languages are found in the meanings of the verbs that become “defective” and in the functions they come to mark. The changes are documented in detail, with examples from a number of languages illustrating the effect of the changes on typology and word order, implications for the encoding of definiteness and aspect, and the relevance of notions such as discourse topic, foreground and transitivity. With respect to theoretical assumptions and terminology, the author has taken a relatively nonpartisan approach, and the discussion is accessible to students of language as well as of interest to theoreticians.

Diachronic and Comparative Syntax

Author : Ian Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315310562
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Diachronic and Comparative Syntax written by Ian Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together for the first time a series of previously published papers featuring Ian Roberts’ pioneering work on diachronic and comparative syntax over the last thirty years in one comprehensive volume. Divided into two parts, the volume engages in recent key topics in empirical studies of syntactic theory, with the eight papers on diachronic syntax addressing major changes in the history of English as well as broader aspects of syntactic change, including the introduction to the formal approach to grammaticalisation, and the eight papers on comparative syntax exploring head-movement, the nature and distribution of clitics, and the nature of parametric variation and change. This comprehensive collection of the author’s body of research on diachronic and comparative syntax is an essential resource for scholars and researchers in theoretical, comparative, and historical linguistics.

Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax

Author : Eric Mathieu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191065021
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax by : Eric Mathieu

Download or read book Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax written by Eric Mathieu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change at different granularities. The language-particular component of a grammar is now usually assumed to be nothing more than the specification of the grammatical properties of a set of lexical items. Accordingly, grammar change must reduce to lexical change. And yet these micro-changes can cumulatively alter the typological character of a language (a macro-change). A central puzzle in diachronic syntax is how to relate macro-changes to micro-changes. Several chapters in this volume describe specific micro-changes: changes in the syntactic properties of a particular lexical item or class of lexical items. Other chapters explore links between micro-change and macro-change, using devices such as grammar competition at the individual and population level, recurring diachronic pathways, and links between acquisition biases and diachronic processes. This book is therefore a great companion to the recent literature on the micro- versus macro-approaches to parameters in synchronic syntax. One of its important contributions is the demonstration of how much we can learn about synchronic linguistics through the way languages change: the case studies included provide diachronic insight into many syntactic constructions that have been the target of extensive recent synchronic research, including tense, aspect, relative clauses, stylistic fronting, verb second, demonstratives, and negation. Languages discussed include several archaic and contemporary Romance and Germanic varieties, as well as Greek, Hungarian, and Chinese, among many others.

Language Creation and Language Change

Author : Michel DeGraff
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262041683
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (416 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Creation and Language Change by : Michel DeGraff

Download or read book Language Creation and Language Change written by Michel DeGraff and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1999 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on creolization, language change, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers--and (viewed externally) across generations of speakers. The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language development from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments. In turn, this comparison yields fresh insights on the mental bases of language creation.The book is organized into five parts: creolization and acquisition; acquisition under exceptional circumstances; language processing and syntactic change; parameter setting in acquisition and through creolization and language change; and a concluding part integrating the contributors' observations and proposals into a series of commentaries on the state of the art in our understanding of language development, its role in creolization and diachrony, and implications for linguistic theory.Contributors : Dany Adone, Derek Bickerton, Adrienne Bruyn, Marie Coppola, Michel DeGraff, Viviane D�prez, Alison Henry, Judy Kegl, David Lightfoot, John S. Lumsden, Salikoko S. Mufwene, Pieter Muysken, Elissa L. Newport, Luigi Rizzi, Ian Roberts, Ann Senghas, Rex A. Sprouse, Denise Tangney, Anne Vainikka, Barbara S. Vance, Maaike Verrips.

Morphosyntax of Verb Movement

Author : C. Jan-Wouter Zwart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792342632
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Morphosyntax of Verb Movement by : C. Jan-Wouter Zwart

Download or read book Morphosyntax of Verb Movement written by C. Jan-Wouter Zwart and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morphosyntax of Verb Movement discusses the phenomenon of Dutch, present in many Germanic languages, that the finite verb is fronted in main clauses but not in embedded clauses. The theoretical framework adopted is the so-called Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995), the latest developmental stage of generative grammar. Taking issue with previous analyses, the author argues that phrase structure in Dutch is uniformly head initial, and that the finite verb moves to different positions in subject initial main clauses and in inversion constructions. The book contains lucid and detailed discussion of many theoretical issues in connection with the Minimalist Program, such as the relation between syntax and morphology, the nature of syntactic licensing, and the structure of the functional domain. At the same time, it offers a survey of the properties of Dutch syntax, a discussion of previous analyses of Dutch syntax and a wealth of material from dialects of Dutch and other Germanic languages.

Clause Structure and Language Change

Author : Adrian Battye
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195086325
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Clause Structure and Language Change written by Adrian Battye and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure. These papers testify to the recent renewal of interest in diachronic syntax, a consequence of the new emphasis on comparative issues in the principles and parameters framework.

Diachronic Syntax: The Kartvelian Case

Author : Alice C. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004373144
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Diachronic Syntax: The Kartvelian Case written by Alice C. Harris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Diachronic Syntax

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019886146X
Total Pages : 751 pages
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Download or read book Diachronic Syntax written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Ian Roberts's highly successful textbook on diachronic syntax has been fully revised and updated throughout to take account of the multiple developments in the field in the last decade. The book provides a detailed account of how standard questions in historical linguistics - including word order change, grammaticalization, and reanalysis - can be explored in terms of current minimalist theory and Universal Grammar. This new edition offers expanded coverage of a range of topics, including null subjects, the Final-over-Final Condition, the diachrony of wh-movement, the Tolerance Principle, and creoles and creolization, and explores further advances in the theory of parametric variation. Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading, and the book concludes with a comprehensive glossary of key terms. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, the volume will remain an ideal textbook for students of historical linguistics and a valuable reference for researchers and students in related areas such as syntax, comparative linguistics, language contact, and language acquisition.