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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: John Whitman, Dianne Jonas, and Andrew Garrett: Introduction
- Part 1: Grammaticalization and Directionality of Change
- 2: Paul Kiparsky: Grammaticalization as Optimization
- 3: Andrew Garrett: The Historical Syntax Problem: Reanalysis and Directionality
- 4: Montse Batllori and Francesc Roca: Grammaticalization of ser and estar in Romance
- 5: David Willis: A Minimalist Approach to Jespersen's Cycle in Welsh
- Part 2: Change in the Nominal Domain: Internal and External Factors
- 6: Uffe Bergeton and Roumyana Pancheva: A New Perspective on the Historical Development of English Intensifiers and Reflexives
- 7: Gertjan Postma: Language Contact and Linguistic Complexity - The Rise of the Reflexive Pronoun zich in a 15th Century netherlands' Border Dialect
- 8: Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Valentin Vulchanov: An Article Evolving: The Case of Old Bulgarian
- 9: Christina Guardiano: Parametric Changes in the History of the Greek Article
- 10: Paola Chrisma: Triggering Syntactic Change: Inertia and Local Causes in the History of English Genitives
- Part 3: Change in the Clausal Domain: Cues, Triggers, and Articulation
- 11: Eric Haeberli and Susan Pintzuk: Revisting Verb (Projection) Raising in Old English
- 12: Ans van Kemenade and Tanja Milicev: Syntax and Discourse in Old English and Middle Word Order
- 13: Brady Clark: Subjects in Early English: Syntactic Change as Gradual Constraint Reranking
- 14: Ana Maria Martins: Coordination, Gapping, and the Portuguese Inflected Infinitive: The Role of Structural Ambiguity in Syntactic Change
- 15: John Sundquist: Neg Movement in the History of Norwegian: The Evolution of a Grammatical Virus
- Part 4: Morphosyntactic Change and Language Type
- 16: Jason Haugen: On the Gradual Development of Polysynthesis in Nahuatl
- 17: Edith Aldridge: Antipassive in Austronesian Alignment Changeg
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Index