32.1633, Books: Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change: Roberts, Eythórsson (eds.)

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Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 14:03:14
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Subject: Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change: Roberts, Eythórsson (eds.)

 


Title: Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/syntactic-features-and-the-limits-of-syntactic-change-9780198832584?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Editor: Ian Roberts
Editor: Thórhallur Eythórsson

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198832584 Pages: 448 Price: U.S. $ 115.00


Abstract:

This volume brings together the latest diachronic research on syntactic
features and their role in restricting syntactic change. The chapters address
a central theoretical issue in diachronic syntax: whether syntactic variation
can always be attributed to differences in the features of items in the
lexicon, as the Borer-Chomsky conjecture proposes. In answering this question,
all the chapters develop analyses of syntactic change couched within a
formalist framework in which rich hierarchical structures and abstract
features of various kinds play an important role. The first three parts of the
volume explore the different domains of the clause, namely the C-domain, the
T-domain and the ?P/VP-domain respectively, while chapters in the final part
are concerned with establishing methodology in diachronic syntax and modelling
linguistic correspondences. The contributors draw on extensive data from a
large number of languages and dialects, including several that have received
little attention in the literature on diachronic syntax, such as Romeyka, a
Greek variety spoken in Turkey, and Middle Low German, previously spoken in
northern Germany. Other languages are explored from a fresh theoretical
perspective, including Hungarian, Icelandic, and Austronesian languages. The
volume sheds light not only on specific syntactic changes from a
cross-linguistic perspective but also on broader issues in language change and
linguistic theory.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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