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Diachronic Syntax (Paperback, New)
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Diachronic Syntax (Paperback, New)
Series: Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics
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This is an introduction to syntactic change from the perspective of
generative theory. Generative diachronic syntax has developed since
the inception of the principles and parameters approach to
comparative syntax in the early 1980s and have become increasingly
important in historical linguistics and generative theory: it acts
as a bridge between them and has provided insights to both. The
generative approach was developed to account for synchronic
variation: Ian Roberts shows how it may be used to understand how
and why languages change. He relates work in historical linguistics
to contemporary work on universal grammar and historical syntactic
variation. He explains how standard questions in historical
linguistics - including word-order change, grammaticalisation, and
reanalysis - can be helpfully explored in terms of current
generative syntax. He examinbes the nature of the links between
syntactic change and first-language acquisition and language
learnability and concludes by considering the short and long-term
effects of language contact. Professor Roberts illustrates his
exposition with numerous examples from a range of different
languages and provides guides to further reading and a
comprehensive glossary.
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