Alice C. Harris, Lyle Campbell

Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Comprehensive treatment of syntactic change, drawing on data from a wide range of languages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 817g
• ISBN-13: 9780521478816
• ISBN-10: 0521478812
• Artikelnr.: 22232332

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. The history of historical syntax: major themes
3. Overview of a theory of syntactic change
4. Reanalysis
5. Extension
6. Language contact and syntactic borrowing
7. Processes that simplify bi-clausal structures
8. Word order
9. Alignment
10. On the development of complex constructions
11. The nature of syntactic change and the issue of causation
12. Reconstruction of syntax
Appendix
Bibliography.