33.384, Books: Third Factors in Language Variation and Change: Van Gelderen

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Subject: 33.384, Books: Third Factors in Language Variation and Change: Van Gelderen

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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 21:39:07
From: Eleanor Hennerley [ehennerley at cambridge.org]
Subject: Third Factors in Language Variation and Change: Van Gelderen

 


Title: Third Factors in Language Variation and Change 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/third-factors-language-variation-and-change?format=HB 


Author: Elly Van Gelderen

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108831161 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108831161 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108831161 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

In this pioneering study, a world-renowned generative syntactician explores
the impact of phenomena known as 'third factors' on syntactic change.
Generative syntax has in recent times incorporated third factors – factors not
specific to the language faculty – into its framework, including minimal
search, labelling, determinacy and economy. Van Gelderen's study applies these
principles to language change, arguing that change is a cyclical process, and
that third factor principles must combine with linguistic information to fully
account for the cyclical development of 'optimal' language structures. Third
Factor Principles also account for language variation around that-trace
phenomena, CP-deletion, and the presence of expletives and Verb-second. By
linking insights from recent theoretical advances in generative syntax to
phenomena from language variation and change, this book provides a unique
perspective, making it essential reading for academic researchers and students
in syntactic theory and historical linguistics.
 



Preface; 1. The shift towards a minimal UG; 2. Labeling in language change; 3.
Determinancy in language variation; 4. Determinancy in language change; 5.
Labeling and determinancy: verb-second and expletives; 6. Adjunct
incorporation and avoiding pair merge; 7. Conclusion.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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