Historical linguistics, the oldest field in linguistics, has
been traditionally dominated by phonological and etymological
investigations. Only in the late twentieth century have linguists
begun to focus their interest and research on the area of syntactic
change and the insight it provides on the nature of language. This
volume represents the first major contribution on the mechanisms of
syntactic change.
The fourteen articles that make up this volume were selected
from the Symposium on the Mechanisms of Syntactic Change held at
the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1976, one of a
series of three conferences sponsored by the National Science
Foundation.
These papers clearly demonstrate that the generative approach to
the study of language does not explain diachronic processes in
syntax. This collection is enlightening, provocative, and carefully
documented with data drawn from a great variety of language
families.
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