This book of new work by leading international scholars considers
developments in the study of diachronic linguistics and linguistic
theory, including those concerned with the very definition of
language change in the biolinguistic framework, parametric change
in a minimalist conception of grammar, the tension between the
observed gradual nature of language change and the binary nature of
parameters, and whether syntactic change can be triggered
internally or requires the external stimuli produced by
phonological or morphological change or through language contact.
It then tests their value and applicability by examining syntactic
change at different times and in a wide range of languages,
including German, Chinese, Dutch, Sanskrit, Egyptian, Norwegian,
old Italian, Portuguese, English, the Benue-Kwa languages of
Niger-Congo, Catalan, Spanish, and old French. The book is divided
into three parts devoted to (i) theoretical issues in historical
syntax; (ii) external (such as contact and interference) and
internal (grammatical) sources of morphosynactic change; and (iii)
parameter setting and reanalysis.
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