30.4633, Books: Cycles in Language Change: Bouzouita, Breitbarth, Danckaert, Witzenhausen (eds.)

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Subject: 30.4633, Books: Cycles in Language Change: Bouzouita, Breitbarth, Danckaert, Witzenhausen (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:18:13
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Cycles in Language Change: Bouzouita, Breitbarth, Danckaert, Witzenhausen (eds.)

 


Title: Cycles in Language Change 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cycles-in-language-change-9780198824961?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Editor: Miriam Bouzouita
Editor: Anne Breitbarth
Editor: Lieven Danckaert
Editor: Elisabeth Witzenhausen

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198824961 Pages: 336 Price: U.S. $ 85.00


Abstract:

This volume explores the multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change from a
wide range of empirical perspectives. The notion of 'linguistic cycle' has
long been recognized as being relevant to the description of many processes of
language change. In grammaticalization, a given linguistic form loses its
lexical meaning - and sometimes some of its phonological content - and then
gradually weakens until it ultimately vanishes. This change becomes cyclical
when the grammaticalized form is replaced by an innovative item, which can
then develop along exactly the same pathway. But cyclical changes have also
been observed in language change outside of grammaticalization proper.

The chapters in this book reflect the growing interest in the phenomenon of
grammaticalization and cyclicity in generative syntax, with topics including
the diachrony of negation, the syntax of determiners and pronominal clitics,
the internal structure of wh-words and logical operators, cyclical changes in
argument structure, and the relationship between morphology and syntax. The
contributions draw on data from multiple language families, such as
Indo-European, Semitic, Japonic, and Athabascan.

The volume combines empirical descriptions of novel comparative data with
detailed theoretical analysis, and will appeal to historical linguists working
in formal and usage-based frameworks, as well as to typologists and scholars
interested in language variation and change more broadly.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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