Mechanisms Of Syntactic Change

Author : Charles N. Li
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781477301050

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Mechanisms of Syntactic Change by Charles N. Li Pdf

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.

Author : Symposium on the Mechanisms of Syntactic Change, University of California
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 0598029656

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Mechanisms of Syntactic Change by Symposium on the Mechanisms of Syntactic Change, University of California Pdf

Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0262532670

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Historical Linguistics by Lyle Campbell Pdf

This accessible, hands-on text not only introduces students to the important topicsin historical linguistics but also shows them how to apply the methods described and how to thinkabout the issues; abundant examples and exercises allow students to focus on how to do historicallinguistics. Distinctive to this text is its integration of the standard topics with others nowconsidered important to the field, including syntactic change, grammaticalization, sociolinguisticcontributions to linguistic change, distant genetic relationships, areal linguistics, and linguisticprehistory. Examples are taken from a broad range of languages; those from the more familiarEnglish, French, German, and Spanish make the topics more accessible, while those fromnon-Indo-European languages show the depth and range of the concepts they illustrate.This secondedition features expanded explanations and examples as well as updates in light of recent work inlinguistics, including a defense of the family tree model, a response to recent claims on lexicaldiffusion/frequency, and a section on why languages diversify and spread.

Author : Alice C. Harris,Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521478812

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Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Alice C. Harris,Lyle Campbell Pdf

In this major new work Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of linguistic change. Systematic cross-linguistic comparison of syntactic change across a wide variety of languages is used to construct hypotheses about the universals and limits of language change more generally. In particular, the authors seek to move closer towards describing the range of causes of syntactic change to develop an understanding of the mechanisms of syntactic change, and to provide an understanding of why some languages undergo certain changes and not others. The authors draw on languages as diverse as Pipil and French, Georgian and Estonian, and the data presented is one of the book's great strengths. Rigor and precision are combined here with a great breadth of scholarship to produce a unique resource for the study of linguistic change, which will be of use to scholars and students alike.

Author : Susan Pintzuk,George Tsoulas,Anthony Warner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198250274

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Diachronic Syntax by Susan Pintzuk,George Tsoulas,Anthony Warner Pdf

This text reflects developing trends in linguistic research, specifically the study of syntax and its pivotal position in current theories of language acquisition.

Author : Carlotta Viti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268938

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Perspectives on Historical Syntax by Carlotta Viti Pdf

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.

Author : Björn Hansen,Jasmina Grković-Major,Barbara Sonnenhauser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110531435

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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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : UOM:39015012193796

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Syntactic Change by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marinel Gerritsen,Dieter Stein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Olga Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Graeme Trousdale
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027206718

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Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization by Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Graeme Trousdale Pdf

This volume, which emerged from a workshop at the "New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4" conference held at KU Leuven in July 2008, contains a collection of papers which investigate the relationship between synchronic gradience and the apparent gradualness of linguistic change, largely from the perspective of grammaticalization. In addition to versions of the papers presented at the workshop, the volume contains specially commissioned contributions, some of which offer commentaries on a subset of the other articles. The articles address a number of themes central to grammaticalization studies, such as the role of reanalysis and analogy in grammaticalization, the formal modelling of grammaticalization, and the relationship between formal and functional change, using data from a range of languages, and (in some cases) from particular electronic corpora. The volume will be of specific interest to historical linguists working on grammaticalization, and general linguists working on the interface between synchrony and diachrony.

Author : Daniel Schreier,Marianne Hundt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139619264

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English as a Contact Language by Daniel Schreier,Marianne Hundt Pdf

Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from these fields. Special focus is on recent debates surrounding substratal influence in earlier forms of English (particularly Celtic influence in Old English), on language shift processes (the formation of Irish and overseas varieties) but also on dialects in contact, the contact origins of Standard English, the notion of new epicentres in World English, the role of children and adults in language change as well as transfer and language learning. With contributions from leading experts, the book offers fresh and exciting perspectives for research and is at the same time an up-to-date overview of the state of the art in the respective fields.

Author : Theresa Biberauer,George Walkden
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Ole Nedergaard Thomsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027247940

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Competing Models of Linguistic Change by Ole Nedergaard Thomsen Pdf

The articles of this volume are centered around two competing views on language change originally presented at the 2003 International Conference on Historical Linguistics in the two important plenary papers by Henning Andersen and William Croft. The latter proposes an evolutionary model of language change within a domain-neutral model of a 'generalized analysis of selection', whereas Henning Andersen takes it that cultural phenomena could not possibly be handled, i.e. observed, described, understood, in the same way as natural phenomena. These papers are models of succinct presentation of important theoretical framework. The other papers present and discuss additional models of change, e.g. invisible hand-processes, system-internal models, functional and cognitive models. Most papers do not subscribe to the evolutionary model; instead, they focus on functional factors in the selection and propagation of variants (as opposed to factors of code efficiency), or on cognitive and pragmatic perspectives. Several papers are inspired by the late Eugenio Coseriu and by Henning Andersen's theories on language change. In particular, the volume contains articles proposing interesting grammaticalization studies and extended models of grammaticalization. The clear presentation of important and competing approaches to fundamental questions concerning language change will be of high interest for scholars and students working in the field of diachrony and typology. The languages referred to in the papers include Cantonese, the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages, Danish, English, Eskimo languages, German, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.

Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107020160

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Language Change by Joan Bybee Pdf

This new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.