| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 729 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics |
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Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics.
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| Contents |
Grammaticalization / Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine -- Degrammaticalization / David Willis -- Exaptation / John Haiman -- Reanalysis / Nerea Madariaga -- Analogy and extension / Alice C. Harris -- Restructuring / David W. Lightfoot -- Parameter setting / Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts -- Contact and borrowing / Tania Kuteva -- The comparative method and comparative reconstruction / James Clackson -- Internal reconstruction / Gisella Ferraresi and Maria Goldbach -- Corpora and quantitative methods / Susan Pintzuk, Ann Taylor and Anthony Warner -- Phylogenetic reconstruction in syntax: the parametric comparison method / Giuseppe Longobardi and Cristina Guardiano -- Universal grammar / Anders Holmberg -- Abduction / Henning Andersen -- Transparency / David W. Lightfoot -- Uniformitarianism / Ian Roberts -- Markedness, naturalness and complexity / Anna Roussou -- Acquisition and learnability / David W. Lightfoot -- The actuation problem / George Walkden -- Inertia / Ian Roberts -- Gradience and gradualness vs abruptness / Marit Westergaard -- Cyclicity / Elly van Gelderen -- Endogenous and exogenous theories of syntactic change / David Willis -- Imperfect transmission and discontinuity / David W. Lightfoot -- Social conditioning / Suzanne Romaine -- Non-syntactic sources and triggers of syntactic change / Larel J. Brinton and Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Principles and parameters / Adam Ledgeway and Ian Roberts -- Biolinguistics / Cedric Boeckx, Pedro Tiago Martins and Evelina Leivada -- Lexical-functional grammar / Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent -- Typological approaches / Sonia Cristofaro and Paolo Ramat -- Functional approaches / Marianne Mithun |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Historical linguistics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Historical linguistics
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manuals (instructional materials)
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handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ledgeway, Adam, editor.
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Roberts, Ian G., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781107279070 |
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1107279070 |
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1107627893 |
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9781107627895 |
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