The Cambridge Handbook Of Historical Syntax

Author : Adam Ledgeway,Ian Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107049601

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The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax by Adam Ledgeway,Ian Roberts Pdf

Change is an inherent feature of all aspects of language, and syntax is no exception. While the synchronic study of syntax allows us to make discoveries about the nature of syntactic structure, the study of historical syntax offers even greater possibilities. Over recent decades, the study of historical syntax has proven to be a powerful scientific tool of enquiry with which to challenge and reassess hypotheses and ideas about the nature of syntactic structure which go beyond the observed limits of the study of the synchronic syntax of individual languages or language families. In this timely Handbook, the editors bring together the best of recent international scholarship on historical syntax. Each chapter is focused on a theme rather than an individual language, allowing readers to discover how systematic descriptions of historical data can profitably inform and challenge highly diverse sets of theoretical assumptions.

Author : Adam Ledgeway,Ian Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1321 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316720585

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The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax by Adam Ledgeway,Ian Roberts Pdf

Change is an inherent feature of all aspects of language, and syntax is no exception. While the synchronic study of syntax allows us to make discoveries about the nature of syntactic structure, the study of historical syntax offers even greater possibilities. Over recent decades, the study of historical syntax has proven to be a powerful scientific tool of enquiry with which to challenge and reassess hypotheses and ideas about the nature of syntactic structure which go beyond the observed limits of the study of the synchronic syntax of individual languages or language families. In this timely Handbook, the editors bring together the best of recent international scholarship on historical syntax. Each chapter is focused on a theme rather than an individual language, allowing readers to discover how systematic descriptions of historical data can profitably inform and challenge highly diverse sets of theoretical assumptions.

Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107354586

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The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax by Marcel den Dikken Pdf

Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.

Author : Adam Ledgeway,Martin Maiden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1169 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108602792

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The Cambridge Handbook of Romance Linguistics by Adam Ledgeway,Martin Maiden Pdf

The Romance languages and dialects constitute a treasure trove of linguistic data of profound interest and significance. Data from the Romance languages have contributed extensively to our current empirical and theoretical understanding of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics. Written by a team of world-renowned scholars, this Handbook explores what we can learn about linguistics from the study of Romance languages, and how the body of comparative and historical data taken from them can be applied to linguistic study. It also offers insights into the diatopic and diachronic variation exhibited by the Romance family of languages, of a kind unparalleled for any other Western languages. By asking what Romance languages can do for linguistics, this Handbook is essential reading for all linguists interested in the insights that a knowledge of the Romance evidence can provide for general issues in linguistic theory.

Author : Marco Condorelli,Hanna Rutkowska
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1075 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108801416

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The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography by Marco Condorelli,Hanna Rutkowska Pdf

Written by a team of global scholars, this is the first Handbook covering the rapidly growing field of historical orthography. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in the field, and in related areas such as morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, linguistic typology and sociolinguistics.

Author : Merja Kytö,Päivi Pahta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108744346

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The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics by Merja Kytö,Päivi Pahta Pdf

English historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics which has developed theories and methods for exploring the history of the English language. This Handbook provides an account of state-of-the-art research on this history. It offers an in-depth survey of materials, methods, and language-theoretical models used to study the long diachrony of English. The frameworks covered include corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics and manuscript studies, among others. The chapters, by leading experts, examine the interplay of language theory and empirical data throughout, critically assessing the work in the field. Of particular importance are the diverse data sources which have become increasingly available in electronic form, allowing the discipline to develop in new directions. The Handbook offers access to the rich and many-faceted spectrum of work in English historical linguistics, past and present, and will be useful for researchers and students interested in hands-on research on the history of English.

Author : Douglas Biber,Randi Reppen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316298701

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The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics by Douglas Biber,Randi Reppen Pdf

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. The most innovative aspects of the CHECL are its emphasis on critical discussion, its explicit evaluation of the state of the art in each sub-discipline, and the inclusion of empirical case studies. While each chapter includes a broad survey of previous research, the primary focus is on a detailed description of the most important corpus-based studies in this area, with discussion of what those studies found, and why they are important. Each chapter also includes a critical discussion of the corpus-based methods employed for research in this area, as well as an explicit summary of new findings and discoveries.

Author : Grant Goodall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Acceptability (Linguistics)
ISBN : 1108569625

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The Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax by Grant Goodall Pdf

Author : Chu-Ren Huang,Yen-Hwei Lin,I-Hsuan Chen,Yu-Yin Hsu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108349666

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The Cambridge Handbook of Chinese Linguistics by Chu-Ren Huang,Yen-Hwei Lin,I-Hsuan Chen,Yu-Yin Hsu Pdf

The linguistic study of Chinese, with its rich morphological, syntactic and prosodic/tonal structures, its complex writing system, and its diverse socio-historical background, is already a long-established and vast research area. With contributions from internationally renowned experts in the field, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the central issues in Chinese linguistics. Chapters are divided into four thematic areas: writing systems and the neuro-cognitive processing of Chinese, morpho-lexical structures, phonetic and phonological characteristics, and issues in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. By following a context-driven approach, it shows how theoretical issues in Chinese linguistics can be resolved with empirical evidence and argumentation, and provides a range of different perspectives. Its dialectical design sets a state-of-the-art benchmark for research in a wide range of interdisciplinary and cross-lingual studies involving the Chinese language. It is an essential resource for students and researchers wishing to explore the fascinating field of Chinese linguistics.

Author : Marco Condorelli,Hanna Rutkowska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108487313

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The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography by Marco Condorelli,Hanna Rutkowska Pdf

Written by a team of global scholars, this is the first Handbook covering the rapidly growing field of historical orthography. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in the field, and in related areas such as morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, linguistic typology and sociolinguistics.

Author : Carlotta Viti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Ans van Kemenade,Bettelou Los
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405187862

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The Handbook of the History of English by Ans van Kemenade,Bettelou Los Pdf

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research

Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199585847

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics by Keith Allan Pdf

Leading scholars examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from language origins to neurolinguistics, explore the linguistic traditions in different parts of the world, examine how work in linguistics has influenced other fields, and look at how it has been practically applied

Author : Richard D. Janda,Brian D. Joseph,Barbara S. Vance
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118732267

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The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II by Richard D. Janda,Brian D. Joseph,Barbara S. Vance Pdf

An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics. This brand-new, second volume of The Handbook of Historical Linguistics is a complement to the well-established first volume first published in 2003. It includes extended content allowing uniquely comprehensive coverage of the study of language(s) over time. Though it adds fresh perspectives on several topics previously treated in the first volume, this Handbook focuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues. This Handbook provides readers with studies of language change whose perspectives range from comparisons of large open vs. small closed corpora, via creolistics and linguistic contact in general, to obsolescence and endangerment of languages. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, new chapters are offered on matters such as the origin of language, evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, invocations of language present in studies of language past, benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation, ways in which not only biological evolution but also field biology can serve as heuristics for research into the rise and spread of linguistic innovations, and more. Moreover, it: offers novel and broadened content complementing the earlier volume so as to provide the fullest available overview of a wholly engrossing field includes 23 all-new contributed chapters, treating some familiar themes from fresh perspectives but mostly covering entirely new topics features expanded discussion of material from language families other than Indo-European provides a multiplicity of views from numerous specialists in linguistic diachrony. The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, researchers and professional linguists, as well as all those interested in the history of particular languages and the history of language more generally.

Author : Alice C. Harris,Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,8 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.