The linguistic cycle : economy and renewal in historical linguistics

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The linguistic cycle : economy and renewal in historical linguistics

Elly van Gelderen

Routledge, 2024 [i.e. 2023]

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-246) and index

Summary:"Cyclical language change is a linguistic process by which a word, phrase, or part of the grammar loses its meaning or function and is then replaced by another. This can even happen on the level of an entire language, which can experience a change in the language family it is a part of. This new text is a comprehensive introduction to this phenomenon, the mechanisms underlying it, and the relations between the different types of cycles: Elly van Gelderen reviews the subject widely and holistically, defining key terms and comprehensively presenting diverse theoretical perspectives and empirical findings"-- Provided by publisher

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内容説明

* Features & Benefits o The first book to provide a systematic overview introduction to the subject of linguistic cycles, with practical research guidance and other pedagogical resources, for students and researchers in historical linguistics and linguistic typology. o The first book to present material on macro cycles, period, and to tie them to the broader issues and phenomena in linguistic cycle research. Additionally, the author engages with a variety of theoretical perspectives rather than narrowly on one approach (e.g., on functional-cognitive, formal-generative, or usage-oriented perspectives) and brings examples from a variety of typological language families (rather than, as many books do, focusing on Indo-European languages), which will appeal to instructors and researchers coming from different research traditions. * Demand & Audience o Courses on historical linguistics usually cover this topic over a week of the term, and higher-level courses would benefit from the book for more significant use. This book will provide an important, comprehensive, accessible resource for students and researchers that will drive further research in the field, and it will carefully connect this material back to the broader disciplines of historical linguistics, linguistic typology, and theoretical linguistics. * Competition o Existing books are inaccessible to more junior readers on account of format and narrowness (students and researchers not already expert in this subject), outdated, or focused on a related subject without coverage of this subject. This book steps into the gap and offers a detailed introduction to linguistic cycles by the absolute world expert on the subject.

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Preface List of Tables List of Figures Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1 What is the linguistic cycle? 2 What kinds of cycles exist? 3 How and why to study cyclical change 3.1 The practical side 3.2 The theoretical side 4 Major questions in the study of cycles 5 Terminology 6 Conclusion and outline Suggestions for further reading Review questions and exercises 2 History 1 The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries 2 The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 3 The mid and late twentieth century 4 Recent generative work 5 Recent functionalist work 6 Conclusion Suggestions for further reading Review questions 3 Micro cycles: Determiner and Verbal Cycles 1 Definition of a micro cycle 2 Determiner Cycles 3 Copula Cycles 4 Tense and Aspect Cycles 4.1 The Imperfective Cycle 4.2 The Perfective Cycle 4.3 Imperfective and perfective renewal in Basque 5 Mood Cycles 6 Voice Cycles 7 Conclusion Suggestions for further reading Review questions and exercises 4 Micro cycles: Polarity and Discourse Cycles 1 Negative Cycles 1.1 Jespersen's Negative Cycle 1.2 Givon's Negative Cycle 1.3 Croft's Negative Cycle 2 Interrogative Cycles 3 Complementizer Cycles 4 Pragmatic Cycles 4.1 A definition 4.2 Temperal adverbs as sources 4.3 Emphatic Pronoun Cycles 5 Interactions between micro cycles 6 Conclusions Suggestions for further reading Review questions and exercises 5 Macro cycles 1 Definition of a macro cycle 2 Analytic to synthetic to analytic 3 Pronoun Cycles 3.1 Subject Cycle 3.2 Object Cycle 3.3 Morpheme Order 4 Case Cycles 5 Interactions involving macro cycles 6 Conclusions Suggestions for further reading Review questions and exercises Appendix 6 Explanations and mechanisms 1 Clarity vs comfort 2 External factors 3 Construction Grammar 4 Early Minimalism: structural and featural economy 5 Later Minimalism: labeling and determinacy 6 Attractor states 7 Conclusions Suggestions for further reading Review questions and exercises 7 Conclusions and future directions 1 Insights from cycles 2 Criticisms of the cycle 3 Future directions Suggested answers to the review questions and exercises References Indices

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