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Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of
perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this
volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors
in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in
(mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax,
but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as
well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on
data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic
Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and
discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers,
indefinite articles, quantifiers, modal verbs, argument structure
among others. The papers analyze diachronic evidence in the light
of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory, addressing the
crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked,
and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles
and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in
historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.
Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of
perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this
volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors
in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in
(mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax,
but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as
well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on
data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic
Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and
discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers,
indefinite articles, quantifiers, modal verbs, argument structure
among others. The papers analyze diachronic evidence in the light
of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory, addressing the
crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked,
and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles
and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in
historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.
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