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From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Perspectives on Historical Syntax: Viti (ed.)

 


Title: Perspectives on Historical Syntax 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 169  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.169 


Editor: Carlotta Viti

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027268938 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027268938 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027268938 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027259349 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027259349 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027259349 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

This volume discusses topics of historical syntax from different theoretical
perspectives, ranging from Indo-European studies to generative grammar,
functionalism, and typology. It examines mechanisms of syntactic change such
as reanalysis, analogy, grammaticalization, independent drift, and language
contact, as well as procedures of syntactic reconstruction. More than one
factor is considered to explain a syntactic phenomenon, since it is maintained
that an accurate account of multiple causations, of both structural and social
nature, is to be preferred to considerations of economy. Special attention is
given to the relationship between principles of syntactic theory and a search
for data reliability through the methods of corpus linguistics. Data are drawn
from a variety of languages, including Hittite, Vedic, Ancient Greek, Latin,
Romance, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Austroasiatic, Gulf of Guinea creoles. The
book may be therefore of interest for specialists of these languages in
addition to scholars and advanced students of syntax and historical
linguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Greek, Ancient (grc)
                     Hittite (hit)
                     Latin (lat)
                     Sanskrit (san)

Language Family(ies): African Pidgins and Creoles
                      Austro-Asiatic 
                      Germanic 
                      Indo-European 
                      Romance 
                      Slavic Subgroup 


Written In: English  (eng)

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