| Description |
1 online resource (435 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 43 |
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Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 43.
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| Contents |
Degree semantics, polarity, and the grammaticalization of comparative operators into complementizers / Julia Bacskai-Atkari -- Cyclic changes in Hungarian relative clauses / Julia Bacskai-Atkari, Éva Dékány -- Diachronic change and feature instability: the cycles of Fin in Romanian obligatory control / Gabriela Alboiu, Virginia Hill -- Null subjects in Middle Low German: diachronic stability and change / Melissa Farasyn, Anne Breitbarth -- Feature reanalysis and the Latin origin of Romance Negative Concord / Chiara Gianollo -- Degrammaticalization of pronominal clitics in Slavic / Hakyung Jung, Krzysztof Migdalski -- (In)volunerable inflected infinitives as complements to modals: evidence from Galician and Romeyka / Ioanna Sitaridou -- Assessing phonological correlates of syntactic change: the case of Late Latin weak BE / Lieven Danckaert -- Investigating the past of the futurate present / Elizabeth Cowper, Daniel Currie Hall, Bronwyn M. Bjorkman, Rebecca Tollan, Neil Banerjee -- From lexical to dependent: the case of the Greek dative / Elena Anagnostopoulou, Christina Sevdali -- The nature and origin of syntactic ergativity in Austronesian languages / Edith Aldridge -- Featural dynamics in morphosyntactic change / Iris Edda Nowenstein, Anton Karl Ingason -- Syntactic reconstruction based on linguistic fossils: object marking in Uralic / Katalin É. Kiss -- Regular syntactic change and syntactic reconstruction / Mark Hale, Madelyn Kissock |
| Summary |
This volume brings together the latest diachronic research on syntactic features and their role in restricting syntactic change. The chapters explore topics relating to all three domains of the clause as well as issues in methodology and modelling, drawing on data from a range of languages and dialects |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on June 25, 2021) |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Linguistic change.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Linguistic change
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jónsson, Jóhannes Gísli, editor
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Þórhallur Eyþórsson, editor
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| ISBN |
9780192568748 |
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0192568744 |
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9780191871115 |
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0191871117 |
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