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1 online resource (xix, 306 pages) : illustrations |
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[Oxford linguistics] |
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Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics ; 37 |
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Oxford linguistics.
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Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 37.
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| Contents |
Cover; Cycles in Language Change; Copyright; Contents; Series preface; List of abbreviations; Notes on contributors; 1: Cycling through diachrony; 1.1 Cyclical change; 1.2 Cycles in language change: a diachronic generative perspective; 1.3 The contributions to this volume; 1.3.1 Theoretical questions; 1.3.2 Cyclical change in the nominal domain; 1.3.3 Cyclical change in the clausal domain; Acknowledgements; 2: Cyclical change and problems of projection; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 From projection to the labelling algorithm (LA); 2.3 Subjects to T and objects to v*; 2.3.1 The subject cycle |
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2.3.2 The object cycle2.4 Demonstrative pronouns; 2.5 Towards C and ASP; 2.5.1 Towards the specifier of CP; 2.5.2 Towards ASP; 2.6 Towards argumenthood; 2.7 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Primary Sources; 3: When morphological and syntactic change are not in sync: Reassessing diachronic implications of the Rich Agreement Hypothesis; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Rich Agreement Hypothesis: predictions for language change; 3.2.1 The strong view; 3.2.2 The weak view; 3.3 Reanalysis to the rescue?; 3.3.1 Danish; 3.3.2 English; 3.3.3 French; 3.4 Verb movement and the change from SOV to SVO |
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3.4.1 Lithuanian3.4.2 Cimbrian; 3.5 Concluding summary; Acknowledgements; 4: The clitic doubling parameter: Development and distribution of a cyclic change; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The historical dimension and synchronic distribution of CLD in Romance; 4.2.1 From Latin to Peninsular Modern Spanish / Modern Catalan; 4.2.2 Non-peninsular Spanish varieties; 4.3 CLD as a cyclic process; 4.4 The emergence of CLD; 4.4.1 From Latin to the modern Catalan / Spanish varieties; 4.4.2 Summarizing; 4.5 CLD from a parametric perspective; 4.6 Summary |
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5: Weak elements in cycles: A case study on dative pronouns in Old Italo-Romance5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Well-behaved strong, weak, and clitic pl datives; 5.2.1 From Latin illorum to Modern Italian loro; 5.2.2 Loro and lo'; 5.3 The 'short-blanket' problem of pronoun categories; 5.3.1 Strong-like distribution; 5.3.2 Clitic-like distribution; 5.4 The internal structure of pronouns: deficient vs non-deficient; 5.5 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 6: On the emergence of personal articles in the history of Catalan; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Personal articles in modern Catalan; 6.3 Origins: Latin dominus |
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6.4 From Old Catalan to modern Catalan6.5 Evolution of the personal article and the 'linguistic cycle'; 6.6 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Sources; 7: Bare singular nouns in Middle Norwegian; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 BSNs in Old and Modern Norwegian: a brief overview; 7.2.1 Modern Norwegian; 7.2.2 Old Norwegian; 7.3 Development in related languages; 7.4 Observations from Middle Norwegian; 7.4.1 Middle Norwegian data; 7.4.1.1 Selection of data; 7.4.4.2 Principles of excerption; 7.4.2 Nouns with a definite vs indefinite interpretation; 7.4.2.1 Definite interpretation |
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7.4.2.2 Indefinite interpretation |
| Summary |
This volume explores multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change, including the diachrony of negation, the internal structure of wh-words, and changes in argument structure. It combines descriptions of novel data with detailed theoretical analysis, and will appeal to historical linguists and to anyone working on language variation and change |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description from online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on May 12, 2020) |
| Subject |
Linguistic change.
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Linguistic change
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bouzouita, Miriam, editor.
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Breitbarth, Anne, 1976- editor.
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Danckaert, Lieven Jozef Maria, editor.
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Witzenhausen, Elisabeth, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780192558480 |
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019255848X |
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9780191863608 |
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0191863602 |
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