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Internal and External Factors in Syntactic Change / Dieter Stein, Marinel Gerritsen.

DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999 Available online

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Format:
Book
Conference/Event
Contributor:
Gerritsen, Marinel, editor.
Stein, Dieter, editor.
Conference Name:
International Conference on Historical Linguistics (9th : 1989 : Rutgers University)
Series:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 61
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax--Congresses.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Linguistic change--Congresses.
Linguistic change.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (490 p.)
Edition:
Reprint 2011
Place of Publication:
Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
No detailed description available for "Internal and External Factors in Syntactic Change".
Contents:
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: On "internal" and "external" in syntactic change / Gerritsen, Marinel / Stein, Dieter
Syntactic change and borrowing: The case of the accusative-and-infinitive construction in English / Fischer, Olga
External triggers and internal guidance in syntactic development: Coordinating conjunction / Mithun, Marianne
Do and tun: A semantics and varieties based approach to syntactic change / Stein, Dieter
Sentence connection as an expression of medieval principles of representation / Betten, Anne
Grammatical variation and divergence in Vernacular Black English / Rickford, John R.
Internal and external factors in syntactic change in an historical speech community / Ebert, Robert Peter
Counterfactual may have / Denison, David
Changes in subject marking in Japanese / Fujii, Noriko
Relative clauses in Tok Pisin: Is there a natural pathway? / Aitchison, Jean
The pairing of structure and function in syntactic development / Ramat, Anna Giacalone
The history of subordinating conjunctions in some Romance languages / Schlieben-Lange, Brigitte
Internal and external factors in the stabilization of verb-last order in Dutch infinitive clauses / Gerritsen, Marinel
Word order change by grammaticalization / Lehmann, Christian
On the role of prosodic features in syntactic change / Minkova, Donka / Stockwell, Robert P.
Discourse and diachrony: The rise and fall of Old French SI / Fleischman, Suzanne
Subject index
Backmatter
Notes:
"A selection of papers that were presented at the workshop ... held during the Ninth International Conference on Historical Linguistics at Rutgers in August 1989"--Introd.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:
9783110886047
3110886049
OCLC:
922947661

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