33.2981, Books: Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax: Yáñez-Bouza, Moore, van Bergen, Hollmann (eds.)

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Subject: 33.2981, Books: Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax: Yáñez-Bouza, Moore, van Bergen, Hollmann (eds.)

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 14:56:36
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax: Yáñez-Bouza, Moore, van Bergen, Hollmann (eds.)

Title: Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/categories-constructions-and-change-english-syntax?format=PB 

Editor: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
Editor: Emma Moore
Editor: Linda van Bergen
Editor: Willem B. Hollmann

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108411424 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 35.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108411424 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 27.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108411424 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 32.67

Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.

A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories,
constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume,
with contributions by world-renowned scholars as well as some emerging
scholars in the field, covers a wide variety of approaches to grammatical
categories and categorial change, constructions and constructional change, and
comparative and typological research. Each of the fourteen chapters, based on
the analysis of authentic data, highlights the wealth and breadth of the study
of English syntax (including morphosyntax), both theoretically and
empirically, from Old English through to the present day. The result is a body
of research which will add substantially to the current study of the syntax of
the English language, by stimulating further research in the field.

Introduction: analysing English syntax past and present Nuria Yáñez-Bouza,
Emma Moore, Linda van Bergen and Willem B. Hollmann; Part I. Approaches to
Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change: 1. What is special about
pronouns? John Payne; 2. What for? Bas Aarts; 3. Whatever happened to
'whatever'? Dan Mccolm and Graeme Trousdale; 4. Are comparative modals
converging or diverging in English? Different answers from the perspectives of
grammaticalisation and constructionalisation Elizabeth Closs Traugott; 5. The
definite article in Old English: evidence from Ælfric's Grammar Cynthia L.
Allen; Part II. Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change: 6. How
patterns spread: the to-infinitival complement as a case of diffusional
change, or 'To-infinitives, and beyond!' Bettelou Los; 7. 'Me Liketh/Lotheth'
but 'I Loue/Hate': impersonal/non-impersonal boundaries in old and Middle
English Ayumi Miura; 8. 'That's luck, if you ask me': the rise of an
intersubjective comment clause Laurel J. Brinton; 9. Misreading and language
change: a foray into qualitative historical linguistics Sylvia Adamson; 10.
The conjunction and in phrasal and clausal structures in the Old Bailey Corpus
Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg; Part III. Comparative and Typological
Approaches: 11. The role played by analogy in processes of language change:
the case of English have-to compared to Spanish tener-que Olga Fischer and
Hella Olbertz; 12. Modelling step change: the history of will-verbs in
Germanic Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent; 13. Possessives world-wide:
genitive variation in varieties of English Benedikt Heller and Benedikt
Szmrecsanyi; 14. American English: no written standard before the twentieth
century? Christian Mair.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English  (eng)

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