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Historical syntax and linguistic theory / edited by Paola Crisma and Giuseppe Longobardi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax--Congresses.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Historical linguistics--Congresses.
- Historical linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (432 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book of new work by leading international scholars considers developments in the study of diachronic linguistics and linguistic theory, including those concerned with the very definition of language change in the biolinguistic framework, parametric change in a minimalist conception of grammar, the tension between the observed gradual nature of language change and the binary nature of parameters, and whether syntactic change can be triggered internally or requires the externalstimuli produced by phonological or morphological change or through language contact. It then tests their value and
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Theoretical issues in historical syntax
- pt. 2. External and internal sources of morphosyntactic change
- pt. 3. Parameter resetting and reanalysis.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-412) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-156798-1
- 1-282-23509-5
- 9786612235092
- OCLC:
- 430944360
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