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Title: SYNTAX OVER TIME
LEXICAL, MORPHOLOGICAL, AND INFORMATION-STRUCTURAL INTERACTIONS
By: Theresa Biberauer (Editor), George Walkden (Editor)
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0199687927
ISBN 13: 9780199687923
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 26 February, 2015
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 15
Pages: 440
Description: This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and how it is related to the lexicon, morphology, and information structure. It draws on data from a wide variety of languages and will be of interest to all linguists working on syntactic variation and change.
Synopsis: This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and the factors that influence it. Converging empirical and theoretical considerations have suggested that apparent instances of syntactic change may be attributable to factors outside syntax proper, such as morphology or information structure. Some even go so far as to propose that there is no such thing as syntactic change, and that all such change in fact takes place in the lexicon or in the phonological component. In this volume, international scholars examine these proposals, drawing on detailed case studies from Germanic, Romance, Chinese, Egyptian, Finnic, Hungarian, and Sami. They aim to answer such questions as: Can syntactic change arise without an external impetus? How can we tell whether a given change is caused by information-structural or morphological factors? What can 'microsyntactic' investigations of changes in individual lexical items tell us about the bigger picture? How universal are the clausal and nominal t
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
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