Internal And External Factors In Syntactic Change

Author : Marinel Gerritsen,Dieter Stein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110886047

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Internal and External Factors in Syntactic Change by Marinel Gerritsen,Dieter Stein Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Nikolaos Lavidas,Alexander Bergs,Elly van Gelderen,Ioanna Sitaridou
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031309762

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Internal and External Causes of Language Change by Nikolaos Lavidas,Alexander Bergs,Elly van Gelderen,Ioanna Sitaridou Pdf

This volume collects ten studies that propose modern methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change in the case of various morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic characteristics. The studies were first presented in the fourth, fifth and sixth workshops at the “Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe” summer schools, organized on the island of Naxos, Cyclades, Greece and online between 2019 and 2021. The book is divided into two parts that both focus on modern tools and methodologies of analyzing and accounting for language change. The first part focuses on common directions of change in Indo-European languages and beyond, and the second part emphasizes explanations that reveal the role of language contact. The volume promotes a dialogue between approaches to language change having their starting point in structural and typological aspects of the history of languages on the one hand, and approaches concentrating on external factors on the other. Through this dialogue, the volume enriches knowledge on the contrast or complementarity of internally- and externally-motivated causes of language change.

Author : Manuel Díaz-Campos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429577956

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The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish by Manuel Díaz-Campos Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish provides an up-to-date overview of the latest research examining sociolinguistic approaches to analyzing variation in Spanish. Divided into three sections, the book includes the most current research conducted in Spanish variationist sociolinguistics. This comprehensive volume covers phonological, morphosyntactic, social, and lexical variation in Spanish. Each section is further divided into subsections focusing on specific areas of language variation, highlighting the most salient and current developments in each subfield of Hispanic sociolinguistics. As such, this Handbook delves further into the details of topics relating to variation and change in Spanish than previous publications, with a focus on the symbolic sociolinguistic value of specific phenomena in the field. Encouraging readers to think critically about language variation, this book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers seeking to explore lesser-known areas of Hispanic sociolinguistics. The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish will be a welcome addition to specialists and students in the fields of linguistics, Hispanic linguistics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology.

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119485063

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The Handbook of Language Contact by Raymond Hickey Pdf

The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes when speakers of different languages interact. Accessibly structured into three sections, The Handbook of Language Contact explores the role of contact studies within the field of linguistics, the value of contact studies for language change research, and the relevance of language contact for sociolinguistics. This authoritative volume presents original findings and fresh research directions from an international team of prominent experts. Thirty-seven specially-commissioned chapters cover a broad range of topics and case studies of contact from around the world. Now in its second edition, this valuable reference has been extensively updated with new chapters on topics including globalization, language acquisition, creolization, code-switching, and genetic classification. Fresh case studies examine Romance, Indo-European, African, Mayan, and many other languages in both the past and the present. Addressing the major issues in the field of language contact studies, this volume: Includes a representative sample of individual studies which re-evaluate the role of language contact in the broader context of language and society Offers 23 new chapters written by leading scholars Examines language contact in different societies, including many in Africa and Asia Provides a cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world The Handbook of Language Contact, Second Edition is an indispensable resource for researchers, scholars, and students involved in language contact, language variation and change, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and language theory.

Author : Mari C. Jones,Edith Esch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110892598

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Language Change by Mari C. Jones,Edith Esch Pdf

This volume focuses on the interface of different motivating factors that contribute to language change. It combines linguistic case studies with current theoretical debate and contains hitherto unpublished data from English, French, Karaim, Modern Greek, Jordanian, Spanish, Latin and Arabic.

Author : Björn Hansen,Jasmina Grković-Major,Barbara Sonnenhauser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110529395

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Diachronic Slavonic Syntax by Björn Hansen,Jasmina Grković-Major,Barbara Sonnenhauser Pdf

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.

Author : Hubert Cuyckens,Hendrik De Smet,Liesbet Heyvaert,Charlotte Maekelberghe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263841

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Explorations in English Historical Syntax by Hubert Cuyckens,Hendrik De Smet,Liesbet Heyvaert,Charlotte Maekelberghe Pdf

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.

Author : Olga Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199267040

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Morphosyntactic Change by Olga Fischer Pdf

This book presents a critical comparison of the two leading theories of linguistic change. After introducing the aims and methods of historical linguistics, Olga Fischer provides an exposition of the main theories used to describe morphosyntactic change and a full account of the causes and mechanisms by which their leading exponents seek to explain it. She measures the effectiveness of rival theories and methods in different contexts and in the process throws fresh light on the balance of factors influencing linguistic change. Professor Fischer emphazises the unity of form and meaning in the linguistic sign and examines the role played by analogy. She looks at how changes in discourse, lexicon, semantics, pragmatics, and sound interact with changes in morphosyntax, and explores the relationship between external and internal causes of change. She considers whether morphosyntactic change is gradual or abrupt and discusses how far rates of change reflect the degree to which grammar is innate or learned. She uses detailed case studies to illustrate different types of morphosyntactic change, and to show how each theory fares when put into practice. The author's clear style and her balanced approach to this fascinating and complex subject combine to make this a book that will be of central interest and value to scholars and students of linguistic change, at graduate level and above.

Author : Kingsley Bolton,Braj B. Kachru
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415315069

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World Englishes by Kingsley Bolton,Braj B. Kachru Pdf

Author : Theresa Biberauer,George Walkden
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199687923

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Syntax Over Time by Theresa Biberauer,George Walkden Pdf

This collection of essays provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and how it is related to the lexicon, morphology, and information structure. It draws on data from a wide variety of languages and will be of interest to linguists working on syntactic variation and change.

Author : Leonie M.E.A. Cornips,Karen P. Corrigan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294388

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Syntax and Variation by Leonie M.E.A. Cornips,Karen P. Corrigan Pdf

The papers in this collection share a common interest in the empirical, theoretical and meta-theoretical aspects of the ‘internal-external’ (‘formal-functional’) debate in linguistic theory. The primary aim of this volume is to initiate cooperation between internationally renowned generative and variationist linguists with a view to developing an innovative and more cohesive approach to syntactic variation. The present volume contains treatments incorporating the analysis of external factors into accounts focusing on the internal linguistic conditioning of syntactic variation and change cross-linguistically. As such, it offers novel approaches to three key areas of current linguistic debate, viz. (1) Methodological practices, (2) Theoretical applications and (3) Modularity. The volume is, therefore, an important achievement for the progress of linguistic theory more generally and it is an even more crucial milestone in the coming-of-age of ‘Socio-Syntax’ as a discipline in its own right.

Author : Nikolaos Lavidas,Alexander Bergs,Elly van Gelderen,Ioanna Sitaridou
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3031309758

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Internal and External Causes of Language Change by Nikolaos Lavidas,Alexander Bergs,Elly van Gelderen,Ioanna Sitaridou Pdf

This volume collects ten studies that propose modern methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change in the case of various morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic characteristics. The studies were first presented in the fourth, fifth and sixth workshops at the “Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe” summer schools, organized on the island of Naxos, Cyclades, Greece and online between 2019 and 2021. The book is divided into two parts that both focus on modern tools and methodologies of analyzing and accounting for language change. The first part focuses on common directions of change in Indo-European languages and beyond, and the second part emphasizes explanations that reveal the role of language contact. The volume promotes a dialogue between approaches to language change having their starting point in structural and typological aspects of the history of languages on the one hand, and approaches concentrating on external factors on the other. Through this dialogue, the volume enriches knowledge on the contrast or complementarity of internally- and externally-motivated causes of language change.

Author : Nuria Yáñez-Bouza,Emma Moore,Linda van Bergen,Willem B. Hollmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108419567

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Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza,Emma Moore,Linda van Bergen,Willem B. Hollmann Pdf

Explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of English, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically.

Author : Rosanna Sornicola,Erich Poppe,Ariel Shisha-Halevy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284716

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Stability, Variation and Change of Word-Order Patterns over Time by Rosanna Sornicola,Erich Poppe,Ariel Shisha-Halevy Pdf

The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories. The interest in this theme has been revamped by contemporary research in typology with its emphasis on correlation or ‘harmonies’ of structures of word-order as explicative principles of both synchronic and diachronic processes. The aim of this book is to stimulate a critical reconsideration of perspectives and methods in the study of continuities and discontinuities of word-order patterns. Bringing together contributions by specialists of various theoretical backgrounds and with expertise in different language families or groups (Caucasian, Hamito-Semitic, and — among Indo-European — Hittite, Greek, Celtic, Germanic, Slavonic, Romance), the book addresses issues like the notions of stability, variation and change of word-order and their interrelations, the interplay of syntactic and pragmatic factors, and the role of internal and external factors in synchronic and diachronic dynamics of word-order. The book contains a selection of papers presented at a workshop held at the XIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Düsseldorf, August 1997) and additonal invited contributions.

Author : Hadumod Bussmann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415022255

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Lexikon Der Sprachwissenschaft by Hadumod Bussmann Pdf

In over 2,500 entries, this Dictionary provides an exhaustive survey of the key terminology and languages of more than thirty sub-disciplines of linguistics.