Description: Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface, Paperback by Gianollo, Chiara (EDT); Jäger, Agnes (EDT); Penka, Doris (EDT), ISBN 3110488078, ISBN-13 9783110488074, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Number of Pages: 366 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Publisher: DE Gruyter, Inc.
Subject: Linguistics / Syntax, Miscellaneous, Linguistics / Semantics, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Language Course
Item Weight: 26.8 Oz
Author: Agnes Jäger
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 9.1 in
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm] Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
