Perspectives on Historical Syntax
Editor
This volume discusses topics of historical syntax from different theoretical perspectives, ranging from Indo-European studies to generative grammar, functionalism, and typology. It examines mechanisms of syntactic change such as reanalysis, analogy, grammaticalization, independent drift, and language contact, as well as procedures of syntactic reconstruction. More than one factor is considered to explain a syntactic phenomenon, since it is maintained that an accurate account of multiple causations, of both structural and social nature, is to be preferred to considerations of economy. Special attention is given to the relationship between principles of syntactic theory and a search for data reliability through the methods of corpus linguistics. Data are drawn from a variety of languages, including Hittite, Vedic, Ancient Greek, Latin, Romance, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Austroasiatic, Gulf of Guinea creoles. The book may be therefore of interest for specialists of these languages in addition to scholars and advanced students of syntax and historical linguistics.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 169] 2015. vi, 346 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Introduction
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Historical syntax: Problems, materials, methods, hypothesesCarlotta Viti | pp. 1–32
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Syntactic change
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Manner deixis as source of grammatical markers in Indo-European languagesEkkehard König | pp. 33–60
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Time for changeFrans Plank | pp. 61–92
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Syntactic reconstruction
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Reconstructing non-canonical argument structure for Proto-Indo-European: Methodological questions and progressThomas Smitherman | pp. 93–116
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An approach to syntactic reconstructionIlja A. Seržant | pp. 117–154
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Anatolian morphosyntax: Inheritance and innovationAnnette Teffeteller | pp. 155–184
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Historical syntax and corpus linguistics
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Treebanks in historical linguistic researchDag T.T. Haug | pp. 185–202
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Traces of discourse configurationality in older Indo-European languages?Rosemarie Lühr | pp. 203–232
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Studying word order changes in Latin: Some methodological remarksLieven Danckaert | pp. 233–250
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Problematizing syndetic coordination: Ancient Greek ‘and’ from Homer to AristophanesAnna Bonifazi | pp. 251–270
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What role for inscriptions in the study of syntax and syntactic change in the old Indo-European languages? The pros and cons of an integration of epigraphic corporaFrancesca Dell’Oro | pp. 271–290
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Historical syntax and language contact
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The Gulf of Guinea creoles: A case-study of syntactic reconstructionTjerk Hagemeijer | pp. 291–316
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Syntactic diversity and change in Austroasiatic languagesMathias Jenny | pp. 317–340
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Register of Subjects | pp. 341–344
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Register of Languages | pp. 345–346
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN000000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General