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Syntax over Time - Lexical, Morphological, and Information-Structural Interactions (Hardcover)
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Syntax over Time - Lexical, Morphological, and Information-Structural Interactions (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 15
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This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and
the factors that influence it. Converging empirical and theoretical
considerations have suggested that apparent instances of syntactic
change may be attributable to factors outside syntax proper, such
as morphology or information structure. Some even go so far as to
propose that there is no such thing as syntactic change, and that
all such change in fact takes place in the lexicon or in the
phonological component. In this volume, international scholars
examine these proposals, drawing on detailed case studies from
Germanic, Romance, Chinese, Egyptian, Finnic, Hungarian, and Sami.
They aim to answer such questions as: Can syntactic change arise
without an external impetus? How can we tell whether a given change
is caused by information-structural or morphological factors? What
can 'microsyntactic' investigations of changes in individual
lexical items tell us about the bigger picture? How universal are
the clausal and nominal templates ('cartography'), and to what
extent is syntactic structure more generally subject to universal
constraints? The book will be of interest to all linguists working
on syntactic variation and change, and especially those who believe
that historical linguistics and linguistic theory can, and should,
inform one another.
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