Cyclical change / edited by Elly van Gelderen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gelderen, Elly van.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today ; v. 146

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Linguistic change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Linguistic Cycles are ever present in language change and involve a phrase or word that gradually disappears and is replaced by a new linguistic item. The most well-known cycles involve negatives, where an initial single negative, such as not, is reinforced by another negative, such as no thing, and subjects, where full pronouns are reanalyzed as endings on the verb. This book presents new data and insights on the well-known cyclical changes as well as on less well-known ones, such as the preposition, auxiliary, copula, modal, and complementation cycles. Part I covers the negative cycle with chapters looking in great detail at the steps that are typical in this cycle. Part II focuses on pronouns, auxiliaries, and the left periphery. Part III includes work on modals, prepositions, and complementation. The book ends with a psycholinguistic chapter. This book brings together linguists from a variety of theoretical frameworks and contributes to new directions in work on language change.

Contents:

Cyclical change, an introduction / Elly van Gelderen

Jespersen recycled / Jack Hoeksema

The Jespersen cycles / Johan van der Auwera

The negative cycle in early and modern Russian / Olena Tsurska

Jespersen off course? : the case of contemporary Afrikaans negation / Theresa Biberauer

Weak pronouns in Italian: instances of a broken cycle? / Diana Vedovato

The subject cycle of pronominal auxiliaries in old north Russian / Kyongjoon Kwon

Two instances of a broken cycle : sentential particles in Old Italian / Cecilia Poletto

The copula cycle / Terje Lohndal

Rather: on a modal cycle / Remus Gergel

Cycles of complementation in the Mayan languages / Clifton Pye

The preposition cycle in English / Cathleen Waters

The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science / Roeland Hancock and Thomas G. Bever.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612245244

9781282245242

1282245244

9789027289216

9027289212

OCLC:

460637649