Verbs and Diachronic Syntax
Title | Verbs and Diachronic Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | I.G. Roberts |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 940112910X |
This book combines several strands of my work, both individually and in collaboration with various people, over the last couple of years. To a very large extent, I have been inspired by the many talks, classes, appointments and other interactions that took place in the exciting intellectual environ ment that grew up among the linguists working in Geneva in the period 1989-90. It is impossible to mention by name everyone who influenced the devel opment of this material, but I'd particularly like to thank the students in my class 'linguistique diachronique' during that period, who had to suffer through preliminary versions of much of this book, and often seemed to understand what I was getting at better than I did. Luigi Rizzi did more than anyone else to create the unique atmosphere here in the last couple of years, and so he deserves our gratitude for that; he was also my collaborator on the synchronic work on French inversion that inspired much of this book; he also read the whole manuscript in draft form and gave detailed comments; he is also, as anyone working in current comparative syntax knows, a wellspring of knowledge, ideas and inspiration. Maria-Teresa Guasti also read the entire manuscript and gave me invaluable comments. Sten Vikner was a great help, for much more than just Danish data. Special thanks also to Adriana Belletti, Anna Cardinaletti, Liliane Haegeman and Cecilia Poletto.
The Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax of the English Verb-particle Combination
Title | The Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax of the English Verb-particle Combination PDF eBook |
Author | Marion Elenbaas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
Diachronic Syntax
Title | Diachronic Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Roberts |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 523 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199283664 |
This text considers syntactic change from the perspective of generative theory. It explains how diachronic generative theory may be used in the study of linguistic change in different languages & shows how diachronic generative syntax links with the study of first-language acquisition, computional linguistics & sociolinguistics.
The Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax of the English Verb-particle Combination
Title | The Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax of the English Verb-particle Combination PDF eBook |
Author | Maatje Barbara Elenbaas |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Diachronic Syntax: The Kartvelian Case
Title | Diachronic Syntax: The Kartvelian Case PDF eBook |
Author | Alice C. Harris |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 2020-01-13 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004373144 |
New applications of Role & Reference Grammar
Title | New applications of Role & Reference Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Rolf Kailuweit |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2009-05-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1443810657 |
The first part is comprised of seven articles dealing with possible applications of RRG to diachronic syntax and grammaticalization. Beside an overview article, the papers are mainly concerned with changes either in the interaction between topic-focus structure and the Layered Structure of the Clause or in the selection of Privileged Syntactic Arguments and case assignment. The second part consists of applications of RRG to Romance languages, and most of these applications are mainly concerned with the syntax-semantics interface. Different aspects of verbs (verbs as operators, verbs as sentence predicates, verb alternations) and the syntactic and semantic structures they involve are analyzed from an RRG perspective.
Diachronic Construction Grammar
Title | Diachronic Construction Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Jóhanna Barðdal |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2015-07-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027268614 |
Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do constructions change in general, formally and/or semantically, and with what implications for the language system as a whole? This volume offers a broad introduction to the confluence of Construction Grammar and historical syntax, and also detailed case studies of various instances of syntactic change modeled within Construction Grammar. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar as a theory is particularly well suited for modeling historical changes in morphosyntax, and it also documents challenging new phenomena that require a theoretical account within any competing framework of syntactic change.