CiNii 図書 - The diachrony of grammar

The case-studies assembled in these two volumes span a lifetime of research into the diachrony of grammar. That is, into the rise and fall of syntactic constructions and their attendant grammatical morphology. While focused squarely on the data, the studies are nonetheless cast in an explicit theoretical perspective - adaptive, developmental, variationist. Taken as a whole, this work constitutes a frontal assault on Ferdinand de Saussure's corrosive legacy in linguistics. Over the years, reviewers slapped the author's wrist periodically for having dared to commit that most heinous of sins against de Saussure's hallowed legacy - panchronic grammar. In this work he pleads guilty, having never seen a piece of synchronic data that didn't reek, to high heaven, of the diachrony that gave it rise. Reek in two distinct ways: first with the frozen relics of the past that prompt us to reconstruct prior diachronic states; and second with the synchronic variation that hints at ongoing change. Conversely, the author confesses to having never seen a diachronic explanation that did not hinge on the synchronic principles - Carnap's general propositions - that govern language behavior. The synchrony and diachrony of grammar are twin faces of the same coin. To study one without the other is to gut both. By understanding how synchronic grammars come into being we also understand the cognitive, communicative, neurological and developmental universals that constrain diachronic change - and through it synchronic typology.

1. VOLUME I
2. Preface
3. Part I: Perspective
4. Chapter 1. Historical syntax and synchronic morphology: An archaeologist's field trip
5. Chapter 2. From discourse to syntax: Grammar as a processing strategy
6. Chapter 3. Where does crazy syntax come from?
7. Chapter 4. The SOV mystery and language evolution
8. Part II: Out of Africa
9. On the diachrony of the Bantu copula ni
10. Chapter 6. On the verbal origin of the Bantu verb suffixes
11. Chapter 7. Serial verbs and syntactic change: Niger-Congo
12. Chapter 8. Topic, pronoun and grammatical agreement
13. Chapter 9. The drift from VSO to SVO in Biblical Hebrew: The pragmatics of tense-aspect
14. Chapter 10. The evolution of subordinate clauses in Biblical Hebrew
15. Chapter 11. The diachrony of the so-called 'ethical dative'
16. Chapter 12. The evolution of indefinite markers
17. Part III: Voices
18. Chapter 13. The rise of the English GET-passive
19. Chapter 14. Diachronic hybrids: The Lunda Passive
20. Chapter 15. The evolution of de-transitive voice in Tolowa Athabaskan
21. Chapter 16. Tale of two passives: Internal reconstruction in Ute
22. Chapter 17. Toward a diachronic typology of passive voice
23. Bibliography
24. Language Index
25. Topic Index
26. VOLUME II
27. Part IV: High up the mountain
28. Chapter 18. The evolution of Ute case-marking: Preface
29. Chapter 19. The evolution of Ute post-positions
30. Chapter 20. The diachrony of pronominal agreement in Ute
31. Chapter 21. The diachrony of complex verbs in Ute
32. Chapter 22. The usual suspects: The grammaticalization of 'do', 'be', 'have' and 'go' in Ute
33. Part V: Complexity
34. Chapter 23. Serial verbs and the mental reality of 'event'
35. Chapter 24. The puzzle of Ngabere auxiliaries: Comparative cum internal reconstruction in Chibchan and Misumalpan
36. Chapter 25. The genesis of complex verb phrases: Multiple routes to clause-union
37. Chapter 26. The genesis of complex noun phrases
38. Chapter 27. Nominalization, de-subordination and re-finitization
39. Part VI: Prospective
40. Chapter 28. Diachrony, ontogeny, and evolution
41. Chapter 29. Internal reconstruction: As method, as theory
42. Chapter 30. The intellectual roots of functionalism in linguistics
43. Chapter 31. Beyond Structuralism: Exorcising Saussure's ghost
44. Chapter 32. Mi vida loca en la linguistica: A conversation with Zarina Estrada
45. Bibliography
46. Language Index
47. Topic Index

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