This collection of essays provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and how it is related to the lexicon, morphology, and information structure. It draws on data from a wide variety of languages and will be of interest to linguists working on syntactic variation and …
In this major new work Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of linguistic change. Systematic cross-linguistic comparison of syntactic change across a wide variety of languages is used to construct hypotheses about the univ…
Actualization: linguistic change in progress ; [papers from a wo…
by Andersen, Henning, International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C.), International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, British Columbia, Workshop on "Patterns of Actualization in Linguistic Change", Vancouver, B.C.)
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English historical syntax and morphology: selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compos…
by López-Couso, María José, Fanego, Teresa, International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela)
fromAmsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic S…
English historical syntax and morphology: selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compos…
by López-Couso, María José, Pérez Guerra, Javier, International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Fanego, Teresa
fromAmsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic S…
English historical syntax and morphology: selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compos…
by López-Couso, María José, Pérez Guerra, Javier, International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Fanego, Teresa
fromAmsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic S…
This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present twelve papers were care…
"This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field. Leading international scholars report and reflect on the latest research into the nature and outcomes of all aspects of syntactic change including grammaticalization, variation,…