28.3759, Books: Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax: Mathieu, Truswell (eds.)

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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:40:11
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax: Mathieu, Truswell (eds.)

Title: Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/micro-change-and-macro-change-in-diachronic-syntax-9780198747840 

Editor: Eric Mathieu
Editor: Robert Truswell

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198747840 Pages: 400 Price: U.S. $ 115

Abstract:

The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change at
different granularities. The language-particular component of a grammar is now
usually assumed to be nothing more than the specification of the grammatical
properties of a set of lexical items. Accordingly, grammar change must reduce
to lexical change. And yet these micro-changes can cumulatively alter the
typological character of a language (a macro-change). A central puzzle in
diachronic syntax is how to relate macro-changes to micro-changes. Several
chapters in this volume describe specific micro-changes: changes in the
syntactic properties of a particular lexical item or class of lexical items.
Other chapters explore links between micro-change and macro-change, using
devices such as grammar competition at the individual and population level,
recurring diachronic pathways, and links between acquisition biases and
diachronic processes. This book is therefore a great companion to the recent
literature on the micro- versus macro-approaches to parameters in synchronic
syntax. One of its important contributions is the demonstration of how much we
can learn about synchronic linguistics through the way languages change: the
case studies included provide diachronic insight into many syntactic
constructions that have been the target of extensive recent synchronic
research, including tense, aspect, relative clauses, stylistic fronting, verb
second, demonstratives, and negation. Languages discussed include several
archaic and contemporary Romance and Germanic varieties, as well as Greek,
Hungarian, and Chinese, among many others.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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