Historical Syntax and Linguistic Theory

Paola Crisma

ISBN 10: 0199560544 / ISBN 13: 9780199560547

Verlag: Oxford University Press, GB, 2009

Beschreibung

This book of new work by leading international scholars considers developments in the study of diachronic linguistics and linguistic theory, including those concerned with the very definition of language change in the biolinguistic framework, parametric change in a minimalist conception of grammar, the tension between the observed gradual nature of language change and the binary nature of parameters, and whether syntactic change can be triggered internally or requires the external stimuli produced by phonological or morphological change or through language contact. It then tests their value and applicability by examining syntactic change at different times and in a wide range of languages, including German, Chinese, Dutch, Sanskrit, Egyptian, Norwegian, old Italian, Portuguese, English, the Benue-Kwa languages of Niger-Congo, Catalan, Spanish, and old French. The book is divided into three parts devoted to (i) theoretical issues in historical syntax; (ii) external (such as contact and interference) and internal (grammatical) sources of morphosynactic change; and (iii) parameter setting and reanalysis.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9780199560547

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Historical Syntax and Linguistic Theory
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, GB
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0199560544
• ISBN-13: 9780199560547
• Einband: Hardback
• Zustand: New
• Gewicht: 800 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Addresses central topics in current historical syntax

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Paola Crisma studied in Venice, Geneva and Los Angeles and is currently Assistant Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Trieste, after teaching at Padua and being a Fulbright visiting scholar at MIT and UCLA. She has published on comparative syntax, syntax acquisition, and history of English.




Giuseppe Longobardi graduated from Pisa and is now Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Trieste, after teaching at Pisa and Venice. He held visiting positions at Vienna, UCLA, USC, Harvard, the CNRS in Paris, and published extensively on syntactic theory and historical syntax.