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Historical Syntax /

Historical Syntax / ed. by Jacek Fisiak. - Reprint 2010 - 1 online resource (636 p.) - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 23 1861-4302 ; .

I-XII -- Internal reconstruction in pre-Japanese syntax -- Notes on syntactic change: Cooccurrence vs. substitution stability vs. permeability -- Translation and syntactic change -- Relativizers in Early Modern English: A dynamic quantitative study -- Irish complementation: A case study in two types of syntactic change -- Divergent word orderdevelopments in Germanic languages: A description and a tentative explanation -- Relatively attributive: The 'ezafe'-construction from Old Iranian to Modern Persian -- The reconstruction of particles and syntax -- On the strengths and weaknesses of a typological approach to historical syntax -- A valency framework for the Old English verb -- The distribution of the denominative adjective and the adnominal genitive in Old Church Slavonic -- If I was instead of if I were -- Comment on W. Manczak's paper -- Exbraciation in the Kru language family -- The origin of Old English conjunctions: Some problems. -- Levels of linguistic structure and the rate of change. -- Auxiliaries and auxiliarization in Western Muskogean -- Explorations into syntactic obsoleteness: English a-X-ing and X-ing -- Syntactic restructuring in the history of English -- "Es war ein König in Thule , Dem sterbend seine Buhle: On the rise and transformation(s) of morphosyntactic categories -- The choice of relative pronouns in 17th century American English. -- Towards a typology of relative clause formation strategies in Germanic -- Reconstructing word order in a polysynthetic language: From SOV to SVO in Iroquoian -- The study of eighteenth century English syntax -- 'Subjectless' constructions and syntactic change -- Semantic and pragmatic factors in syntactic change -- On the history of the verb-second rule in English -- Typology, universals and change of language -- Reconstructing comparative linguistics and the reconstruction of the syntax of undocumented stages in the development of languages and language families -- Verb-second, verb late, and the brace construction in Germanic: A discussion

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Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax--Congresses.
Historical linguistics--Congresses.
Syntax.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.