| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 441 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 113 |
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 113.
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| Contents |
Grammaticalization in a speaker-oriented theory of change / Henning Andersen -- Degrammaticalization versus typology / John Ole Askedal -- Cascading parameter changes / Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts -- The rise and development of analytic perfects in Italo-Romance / Michela Cennamo -- Raising patterns in Old High German / Ulrike Demske -- The new passive in Icelandic really is a passive / Thórhallur Eythórsson -- A mentalist interpretation of grammaticalization theory / Jan Terje Faarlund -- Linguistic cycles and economy principle / Elly van Gelderen -- Explaining exuberant agreement / Alice C. Harris -- From resultatives to anteriors in Ancient Greek / Dag Haug -- Lexical nonsense and morphological sense / Martin Maiden -- The diffusion of systemic changes through the inflectional system / Kjartan Ottosson -- Left branch extraction of nominal modifiers in old Scandinavian / Christer Platzack -- On incorporation in Athapaskan languages / Keren Rice -- Argument marking from Latin to modern Romance languages / Lene Schøsler |
| Summary |
This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The overall theme of the volume is 'internal factors in grammatical change.' The papers focus on fundamental questions in theoretically-based historical linguistics from a broad perspective. Several of the papers relate to grammaticalization in different ways, but are generally critical of 'Grammaticalization Theory'. Further papers focus on the causes of syntactic change, pinpointing both extra-syn |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization.
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Linguistic change.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization
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Linguistic change
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Þórhallur Eyþórsson.
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| LC no. |
2007038184 |
| ISBN |
9789027291578 |
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9027291578 |
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1282152238 |
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9781282152236 |
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9786612152238 |
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6612152230 |
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