12.1008, Books: Syntax
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:15:24 -0400
From: Kimberly Kahn <KRK at OUP-USA.ORG>
Subject: Syntax: Diachronic Syntax by Pintzuk, Tsoulas, & Warner
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:15:24 -0400
From: Kimberly Kahn <KRK at OUP-USA.ORG>
Subject: Syntax: Diachronic Syntax by Pintzuk, Tsoulas, & Warner
DIACHRONIC SYNTAX: Models and Mechanisms
Edited by Susan Pintzuk, George Tsoulas, and Anthony Warner,
all at the University of York
Linguistic theory has undergone deep changes since the early 1990's,
given the widespread impact of Chomsky's Minimalist Programme, Kayne's
Antisymmetry Theory, and Kayne's Theory of Overt Movement. This work
has brought into sharper focus questions concerning the architecture
of linguistic theory that have a direct impact on our understanding of
the process of change. Here, Pintzuk, Tsoulas, and Warner have
brought together chapters which demonstrate the pivotal position of
historical syntax within the larger domain of research into the
nature, use, and acquisition of language. They show how current work
in historical syntax is responsive to theoretical advances in
linguistic theory, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and
theories of language use, as well as to less adjacent fields such as
statistical techniques and evolutionary biology.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Economy and Syntactic Change, Susan Pintzuk, George Tsoulas, and
Anthony Warner
Part I: Frameworks for the Understanding of Change
Chapter 2: The Theoretical Implications of Syntactic Infixation, Ian Roberts
Chapter 3: Competition and Correspondence in Syntactic Change, Nigel Vincent
Chapter 4: Negation and Verb Position in Gothic and Early West-Germanic,
Ans van Kemenade
Chapter 5: Evolutionary Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax, Ted Briscoe
Part II: The Comparative Basis of Diachronic Syntax
Chapter 6: Adjuncts and the Syntax of Subjects in Old and Middle English,
Eric Haeberli
Chapter 7: Statistics and Grammar, Anthony Kroch and Ann Taylor
Part III: Mechanisms of Syntactic Change: Features and Categories
Chapter 8: The Value of Ds from Old Spanish to Modern Spanish, Montse Battlori
and Francesc Roca
Chapter 9: Polarity Items in Romance, Ana Maria Martins
Chapter10: Relabelling, John Whitman
Part IV: Mechanisms of Syntactic Change: Movement
Chapter11: OV/VO Variation in Old Swedish, Lars-Olof Delsing
Chapter12: The Evolution of do-support in English Imperatives, Chung-hye Han
Chapter13: Verb Movement in Dutch Present-Participle Clauses, Jack Hoeksema
Chapter14: Interacting Movements in the History of Icelandic,
Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
Chapter15: Null Subjects in Middle English Existentials, Alexander Williams
Chapter16: Reanalysis in the Russian Conditional, David Willis
April 2001 392 pp.; 6 line illus
0-19-825027-4 paper $39.95
0-19-825026-6 cloth $90.00
Oxford University Press
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