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Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson And Thórhallur Eythórsson Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson and Thórhallur Eythórsson

ISBN(s): 9780192568748, 9780198832584, 0192568744, 0198832583, 2021931819

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Year: 2021

Language: English

SKU: EB-30396290 Categories: dictionaries & phrasebooks, Languages - Grammar Tags: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson, Syntactic Change, Syntactic Features, Thórhallur Eythórsson

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Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780192568748,9780198832584,0192568744,0198832583,2021931819

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0192568744
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780192568748
Author: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson , Thórhallur Eythórsson

This volume brings together the latest diachronic research on syntactic features and their role in restricting syntactic change. The chapters address a central theoretical issue in diachronic syntax: whether syntactic variation can always be attributed to differences in the features of items in the lexicon, as the Borer-Chomsky conjecture proposes. In answering this question, all the chapters develop analyses of syntactic change couched within a formalist framework in which rich hierarchical structures and abstract features of various kinds play an important role. The first three parts of the volume explore the different domains of the clause, namely the C-domain, the T-domain and the ?P/VP-domain respectively, while chapters in the final part are concerned with establishing methodology in diachronic syntax and modelling linguistic correspondences. The contributors draw on extensive data from a large number of languages and dialects, including several that have received little attention in the literature on diachronic syntax, such as Romeyka, a Greek variety spoken in Turkey, and Middle Low German, previously spoken in northern Germany. Other languages are explored from a fresh theoretical perspective, including Hungarian, Icelandic, and Austronesian languages. The volume sheds light not only on specific syntactic changes from a cross-linguistic perspective but also on broader issues in language change and linguistic theory.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Syntactic features and the limits of syntactic change

Chapter 2: Degree semantics, polarity, and the grammaticalization of comparative operators into comp

Chapter 3: Cyclic changes in Hungarian relative clauses

Chapter 4: Diachronic change and feature instability: The cycles of Fin in Romanian obligatory contr

Chapter 5: Null subjects in Middle Low German: Diachronic stability and change

Chapter 6: Feature reanalysis and the Latin origin of Romance Negative Concord

Chapter 7: Degrammaticalization of pronominal clitics in Slavic

Chapter 8: (In)vulnerable inflected infinitives as complements to modals: Evidence from Galician and

Chapter 9: Assessing phonological correlates of syntactic change: The case of Late Latin weak BE

Chapter 10: Investigating the past of the futurate present

Chapter 11: From lexical to dependent: The case of the Greek dative