Perspectives on historical syntax
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Perspectives on historical syntax
(Studies in language companion series / series editors, Werner Abraham, Michael Noonan, v. 169)
John Benjamins, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents of Works
- Historical syntax: Problems, materials, methods, hypotheses / Carlotta Viti
- Manner deixis as source of grammatical markers in Indo-European languages / Ekkehard Konig
- Time for change / Frans Plank
- Reconstructing non-canonical argument structure for Proto-Indo-European : Methodological questions and progress / Thomas Smitherman
- An approach to syntactic reconstruction / Ilja A. Seržant
- Anatolian morphosyntax: Inheritance and innovation / Annette Teffeteller
- Treebanks in historical linguistic research / Dag Haug
- Traces of discourse configurationality in older Indo-European languages? / Rosemarie Luhr
- Studying word order changes in Latin : Some methodological remarks / Lieven Danckaert
- Problematizing syndetic coordination : Ancient Greek `and' from Homer to Aristophanes / Anna Bonifazi
- What role for inscriptions in the study of syntax and syntactic change in the old Indo-European languages? The pros and cons of an integration of epigraphic corpora / Francesca Dell'oro
- The Gulf of Guinea creoles : A case-study of syntactic reconstruction / Tjerk Hagemeijer
- Syntactic diversity and change in Austroasiatic languages / Mathias Jenny
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume discusses topics of historical syntax from different theoretical perspectives, ranging from Indo-European studies to generative grammar, functionalism, and typology. It examines mechanisms of syntactic change such as reanalysis, analogy, grammaticalization, independent drift, and language contact, as well as procedures of syntactic reconstruction. More than one factor is considered to explain a syntactic phenomenon, since it is maintained that an accurate account of multiple causations, of both structural and social nature, is to be preferred to considerations of economy. Special attention is given to the relationship between principles of syntactic theory and a search for data reliability through the methods of corpus linguistics. Data are drawn from a variety of languages, including Hittite, Vedic, Ancient Greek, Latin, Romance, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Austroasiatic, Gulf of Guinea creoles. The book may be therefore of interest for specialists of these languages in addition to scholars and advanced students of syntax and historical linguistics.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Historical syntax: Problems, materials, methods, hypotheses (by Viti, Carlotta)
- 3. Syntactic change
- 4. Manner deixis as source of grammatical markers in Indo-European languages (by Konig, Ekkehard)
- 5. Time for change (by Plank, Frans)
- 6. Syntactic reconstruction
- 7. Reconstructing non-canonical argument structure for Proto-Indo-European: Methodological questions and progress (by Smitherman, Thomas)
- 8. An approach to syntactic reconstruction (by Serzant, Ilja A.)
- 9. Anatolian morphosyntax: Inheritance and innovation (by Teffeteller, Annette)
- 10. Historical syntax and corpus linguistics
- 11. Treebanks in historical linguistic research (by Haug, Dag T.T.)
- 12. Traces of discourse configurationality in older Indo-European languages? (by Luhr, Rosemarie)
- 13. Studying word order changes in Latin: Some methodological remarks (by Danckaert, Lieven)
- 14. Problematizing syndetic coordination: Ancient Greek 'and' from Homer to Aristophanes (by Bonifazi, Anna)
- 15. What role for inscriptions in the study of syntax and syntactic change in the old Indo-European languages?: The pros and cons of an integration of epigraphic corpora (by Dell'Oro, Francesca)
- 16. Historical syntax and language contact
- 17. The Gulf of Guinea creoles: A case-study of syntactic reconstruction (by Hagemeijer, Tjerk)
- 18. Syntactic diversity and change in Austroasiatic languages (by Jenny, Mathias)
- 19. Register of Subjects
- 20. Register of Languages
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