Grammatical change: origins, nature, outcomes

This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field. International scholars report on the nature and outcomes of all aspects of syntactic change, including grammaticalization, variation, syntactic movement, determiner-phrase syntax, pronominal systems, case systems, negation, and alignment. This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field. Leading international scholars report and reflect on the latest research into the nature and outcomes of all aspects of syntactic change including grammaticalization, variation, complementation, syntactic movement, determiner-phrase syntax, pronominal systems, case systems, negation, and alignment. The authors deploy a variety of generative frameworks, including minimalist andoptimality theoretic, and bring these to bear on a wide range of languages: among the latter are typologically distinct examples from Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Greek, Korean and Japanese, Austronesian, Celtic, and Nahuatl. They drawon sociolinguistic evidence where appropriate. Taken as a whole, thevolume provides a stimulating overview of key current issues in the investigation of the origins, nature, and outcome of syntactic change. INDICE: Introduction Part 1: Grammaticalization and Directionality of Change Grammaticalization as Optimization The Historical Syntax Problem: Reanalysis and Directionality Grammaticalization of ser and estar in Romance A Minimalist Approach to Jespersen's Cycle in Welsh Part 2: Change in the Nominal Domain: Internal and External Factors A New Perspective on the Historical Development of English Intensifiers and Reflexives Language Contact and Linguistic Complexity - The Rise of the Reflexive Pronoun zich in a 15th Century netherlands' Border Dialect An Article Evolving: The Case of Old Bulgarian Parametric Changes in the History of the Greek Article Triggering Syntactic Change: Inertia and Local Causes in the History of English Genitives Part 3: Change in theClausal Domain: Cues, Triggers, and Articulation Revisting Verb (Projection) Raising in Old English Syntax and Discourse in Old English and Middle Word Order Subjects in Early English: Syntactic Change as Gradual Constraint RerankingCoordination, Gapping, and the Portuguese Inflected Infinitive: The Role of Structural Ambiguity in Syntactic Change Neg Movement in the History of Norwegian: The Evolution of a Grammatical Virus Part 4: Morphosyntactic Change and Language Type On the Gradual Development of Polysynthesis in Nahuatl Antipassive in Austronesian Alignment Changeg References Acknowledgements Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-958262-4
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 24/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés