Continuity and Change in Grammar - Couverture rigide

 
9789027255426: Continuity and Change in Grammar
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9027255423 ISBN 13 : 9789027255426
Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2010

Synopsis

One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the causes of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ‘actuation problem’: why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in other languages, under apparently similar conditions? The sixteen contributions to the present volume each aim to elucidate various aspects of this problem, including: What processes can be identified as the drivers of change? How central are syntax-external (phonological, lexical or contact-based) factors in triggering syntactic change? And how can all of these factors be reconciled with the actuation problem? Exploring data from a wide range of languages from both a formal and a functional perspective, this book promises to be of interest to advanced students and researchers in historical linguistics, syntax and their intersection.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the causes of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ‘actuation problem’: why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in other languages, under apparently similar conditions? The sixteen contributions to the present volume each aim to elucidate various aspects of this problem, including: What processes can be identified as the drivers of change? How central are syntax-external (phonological, lexical or contact-based) factors in triggering syntactic change? And how can all of these factors be reconciled with the actuation problem? Exploring data from a wide range of languages from both a formal and a functional perspective, this book promises to be of interest to advanced students and researchers in historical linguistics, syntax and their intersection.

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Éditeur
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9027255423
ISBN 13 
9789027255426
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
368
Éditeur
Breitbarth Anne, Lucas Christopher, Watts Sheila, Willis David
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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