Studying Language Change in the 21st Century : Theory and Methodologies / edited by Nikolaos Lavidas and Kiki Nikiforidou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nikiforidou, Kiki, editor.

Lavidas, Nikolaos, editor.

Series:

Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; Volume 16.

Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic change--Congresses.

Linguistic change.

English language--Grammar, Historical--Congresses.

English language.

Greek language--Grammar, Historical--Congresses.

Greek language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 395 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Other Title:

Theory and Methodologies

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Summary:

The volume brings together contributions by scholars working in different theoretical frameworks interested in systematic explanation of language change and the interrelation between current linguistic theories and modern analytical tools and methodology; the integrative basis of all work included in the volume is the special focus on phenomena at the interface of semantics and syntax and the implications of corpus-based, quantitative analyses for researching diachrony. The issues addressed in the 13 papers include the following: explanations of change in the interface of semantics and syntax; universal constraints and principles of language change (e.g., economy, reanalysis, analogy) and the possibility of predicting language change; constructional approaches to change and their relation to corpus-based research; language contact as an explanation of change and approaches to historical bilingualism and language contact, all on the basis of empirical corpus findings; the challenges of creating diachronic corpora and the question of how quantitative linguistics and diachronic corpora inform explanations of language change variation.

Contents:

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction / Nikolaos Lavidas and Kiki Nikiforidou

Part 1 New Theories, New Challenges

2 On the Redundancy of a Theory of Language Contact: Cue-Based Reconstruction in a Socio-linguistically Informed Manner / Ioanna Sitaridou

3 Modeling Reanalysis, Naturally / Leah Bauke, Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie

4 The Spread of the VO Pattern in Subject Relative Clauses: The OV / VO Alternation in Old and Middle English / Barthe Bloom

5 The Syntax and Semantics of the Old English Predicative Construction / Javier Martín Arista

6 Antagonistic Complement Structures and Cyclical Change in English and Greek / Konstantinos Sampanis and Eleni Karantzola

7 Perfect ‘Under Construction’: A Diachronic Perspective from Medieval and Modern Greek / Thanasis Giannaris and Nikolaos Pantelidis

Part 2 New Theories, New Tools

8 From Relativizer to Adverbial Connective: Transitional Constructions and Reanalysis in Medieval Greek (o)pu [ όπου ] / Kiki Nikiforidou

9 Purpose Verbs, Phrases and Clauses in Greek of the 20th Century: A Diachronic Corpus Study / Georgia Fragaki and Dionysis Goutsos

10 Change from above in a Sixteenth-Century Corpus of Tuscan Correspondence: The Spread of the Codified Form of the Masculine Determiner / Eleonora Serra

11 Detecting Prescriptivism’s Effects on Language Change: The Corpus-Linguistic Approach / Spiros A. Moschonas

12 Tracing the Evolution of Subjectless ing-/ed -supplements in English: A Diachronic Corpus-Based Analysis / Carla Bouzada-Jabois

13 How Does Language Change (Not) Affect Translation? A Corpus-Based Study on Lexical Transfer in Renaissance English and Greek Literary Texts / Thomi Gamagari and Nikolaos Lavidas.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

The volume brings together contributions by scholars working in different theoretical frameworks interested in systematic explanation of language change and the interrelation between current linguistic theories and modern analytical tools and methodology. Τhe integrative basis of all work is the special focus on phenomena at the interface of semantics and syntax and the implications of corpus-based, quantitative analyses for researching diachrony.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004510579

9004510575

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004510579 DOI