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Internal and External Factors in Syntactic Change / Dieter Stein, Marinel Gerritsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- 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.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9783110886047
- 3110886049
- OCLC:
- 922947661
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