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Third Factors in Language Variation and Change (Hardcover)
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In this pioneering study, a world-renowned generative syntactician
explores the impact of phenomena known as 'third factors' on
syntactic change. Generative syntax has in recent times
incorporated third factors - factors not specific to the language
faculty - into its framework, including minimal search, labelling,
determinacy and economy. Van Gelderen's study applies these
principles to language change, arguing that change is a cyclical
process, and that third factor principles must combine with
linguistic information to fully account for the cyclical
development of 'optimal' language structures. Third Factor
Principles also account for language variation around that-trace
phenomena, CP-deletion, and the presence of expletives and
Verb-second. By linking insights from recent theoretical advances
in generative syntax to phenomena from language variation and
change, this book provides a unique perspective, making it
essential reading for academic researchers and students in
syntactic theory and historical linguistics.
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