Diachronic syntax
This is an introduction to syntactic change from the perspective of generative theory. Generative diachronic syntax has developed since the inception of the principles and parameters approach to comparative syntax in the early 1980s and have become increasingly important in historical linguistics an...
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Oxford,New York
Oxford University Press
2007
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| Institutions: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh |
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| Summary: | This is an introduction to syntactic change from the perspective of generative theory. Generative diachronic syntax has developed since the inception of the principles and parameters approach to comparative syntax in the early 1980s and have become increasingly important in historical linguistics and generative theory: it acts as a bridge between them and has provided insights to both. He explains how standard questions in historical linguistics - including word-order change, grammaticalisation, and reanalysis - can be helpfully explored in terms of current generative syntax |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 508 p. ill. 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 0199253986 9780199253982 |