34.271, Books: The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax: Ledgeway, Roberts

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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:09:28
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax: Ledgeway, Roberts

Title: The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/cambridge-handbook-historical-syntax?format=PB 

Editor: Adam Ledgeway
Editor: Ian Roberts

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107627895 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 54.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107627895 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 42.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107627895 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 50.17

Abstract:

Change is an inherent feature of all aspects of language, and syntax is no
exception. While the synchronic study of syntax allows us to make discoveries
about the nature of syntactic structure, the study of historical syntax offers
even greater possibilities. Over recent decades, the study of historical
syntax has proven to be a powerful scientific tool of enquiry with which to
challenge and reassess hypotheses and ideas about the nature of syntactic
structure which go beyond the observed limits of the study of the synchronic
syntax of individual languages or language families. In this timely Handbook,
the editors bring together the best of recent international scholarship on
historical syntax. Each chapter is focused on a theme rather than an
individual language, allowing readers to discover how systematic descriptions
of historical data can profitably inform and challenge highly diverse sets of
theoretical assumptions.

Introduction Adam Ledgeway and Ian Roberts; Part I. Types and Mechanisms of
Syntactic Change: 1. Grammaticalization Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine; 2.
Degrammaticalization David Willis; 3. Exaptation John Haiman; 4. Reanalysis
Nerea Madariaga; 5. Analogy and extension Alice C. Harris; 6. Restructuring
David W. Lightfoot; 7. Parameter setting Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts; 8.
Contact and borrowing Tania Kuteva; Part II. Methods and Tools: 9. The
comparative method and comparative reconstruction James Clackson; 10. Internal
reconstruction Gisella Ferraresi and Maria Goldbach; 11. Corpora and
quantitative methods Susan Pintzuk, Ann Taylor and Anthony Warner; 12.
Phylogenetic reconstruction in syntax: the parametric comparison method
Giuseppe Longobardi and Cristina Guardiano; Part III. Principles and
Constraints: 13. Universal grammar Anders Holmberg; 14. Abduction Henning
Andersen; 15. Transparency David W. Lightfoot; 16. Uniformitarianism Ian
Roberts; 17. Markedness, naturalness and complexity Anna Roussou; 18.
Acquisition and learnability David W. Lightfoot; Part IV. Major Issues and
Themes: 19. The actuation problem George Walkden; 20. Inertia Ian Roberts; 21.
Gradience and gradualness vs abruptness Marit Westergaard; 22. Cyclicity Elly
van Gelderen; Part V. Explanations: 23. Endogenous and exogenous theories of
syntactic change David Willis; 24. Imperfect transmission and discontinuity
David W. Lightfoot; 25. Social conditioning Suzanne Romaine; 26. Non-syntactic
sources and triggers of syntactic change Laurel J. Brinton and Elizabeth Closs
Traugott; Part VI. Models and Approaches: 27. Principles and parameters Adam
Ledgeway and Ian Roberts; 28. Biolinguistics Cedric Boeckx, Pedro Tiago
Martins and Evelina Leivada; 29. Lexical-functional grammar Kersti Börjars and
Nigel Vincent; 30. Typological approaches Sonia Cristofaro and Paolo Ramat;
31. Functional approaches Marianne Mithun.

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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