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Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax (Hardcover)
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Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 23
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The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change
at different granularities. The language-particular component of a
grammar is now usually assumed to be nothing more than the
specification of the grammatical properties of a set of lexical
items. Accordingly, grammar change must reduce to lexical change.
And yet these micro-changes can cumulatively alter the typological
character of a language (a macro-change). A central puzzle in
diachronic syntax is how to relate macro-changes to micro-changes.
Several chapters in this volume describe specific micro-changes:
changes in the syntactic properties of a particular lexical item or
class of lexical items. Other chapters explore links between
micro-change and macro-change, using devices such as grammar
competition at the individual and population level, recurring
diachronic pathways, and links between acquisition biases and
diachronic processes. This book is therefore a great companion to
the recent literature on the micro- versus macro-approaches to
parameters in synchronic syntax. One of its important contributions
is the demonstration of how much we can learn about synchronic
linguistics through the way languages change: the case studies
included provide diachronic insight into many syntactic
constructions that have been the target of extensive recent
synchronic research, including tense, aspect, relative clauses,
stylistic fronting, verb second, demonstratives, and negation.
Languages discussed include several archaic and contemporary
Romance and Germanic varieties, as well as Greek, Hungarian, and
Chinese, among many others.
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