Perspectives on historical syntax / edited by Carlotta Viti, University of Zurich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Viti, Carlotta, 1974- editor.

EBSCOhost.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 169.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; volume 169

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 346 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Introduction

2 Historical syntax p. 1 / Carlotta Viti

3 Syntactic change

4 Manner deixis as source of grammatical markers in Indo-European languages p. 33 / Ekkehard König

5 Time for change p. 61 / Frans Plank

6 Syntactic reconstruction

7 Reconstructing non-canonical argument structure for Proto-Indo-European p. 93 / Thomas Smitherman

8 An approach to syntactic reconstruction p. 117 / Ilja A. Serzant

9 Anatolian morphosyntax p. 155 / Annette Teffeteller

10 Historical syntax and corpus linguistics

11 Treebanks in historical linguistic research p. 185 / Dag T.T. Haug

12 Traces of discourse configurationality in older Indo-European languages? p. 203 / Rosemarie Lühr

13 Studying word order changes in Latin p. 233 / Lieven Danckaert

14 Problematizing syndetic coordination p. 251 / Anna Bonifazi

15 What role for inscriptions in the study of syntax and syntactic change in the old Indo-European languages? p. 271 / Francesca Dell'Oro

16 Historical syntax and language contact

17 The Gulf of Guinea creoles p. 291 / Tjerk Hagemeijer

18 Syntactic diversity and change in Austroasiatic languages p. 317 / Mathias Jenny

19 Register of Subjects p. 341

20 Register of Languages p. 345.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 23, 2015).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Perspectives on historical syntax

ISBN:

9789027268938

9027268932

Publisher Number:

99966671350

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