TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,Stephen
AU  - Chafe,Wallace
AU  - Chung,Sandra
AU  - Dixon,R.
AU  - Givón,Talmy
AU  - Haas,Mary
AU  - Hankamer,Jorge
AU  - Langacker,Ronald
AU  - Langdon,Margaret
AU  - Li,Charles
AU  - Li,Charles N.
AU  - Munro,Pamela
AU  - Steele,Susan
AU  - Stockwell,Robert
AU  - Thompson,Sandra
AU  - Timberlake,Alan
TI  - Mechanisms of Syntactic Change
SN  - 9781477301043
U1  - 415 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Participants --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; I. The Nature of Syntactic Change --; 1. On the Gradual Nature of Syntactic Change --; 2. Syntactic Reanalysis --; 3. Reanalysis and Actualization in Syntactic Change --; II. Word Order Change --; 4. The Drift from VSO to SVO in Biblical Hebrew: The Pragmatics of Tense-Aspect --; 5. Syntactic Change and SOV Structure: The Yuman Case --; 6. Motivations for Exbraciation in Old English --; III. Syntactic Change and Ergativity --; 7. On Mechanisms by Which Languages Become Ergative --; 8. The Syntactic Development of Australian Languages --; IV. Development of the Copula --; 9. A Mechanism for the Development of Copula Morphemes --; 10. From Existential to Copula: The History of Yuman BE --; V. Clisis and Verb Morphology --; 11. The Evolution of Third Person Verb Agreement in the Iroquoian Languages --; 12. From Auxiliary Verb Phrase to Inflectional Suffix --; 13. Clisis and Diachrony --; VI. Multiple Analyses --; 14. Multiple Analyses --; Author Index --; Language Index; restricted access
N2  - Historical linguistics, the oldest field in linguistics, has been traditionally dominated by phonological and etymological investigations. Only in the late twentieth century have linguists begun to focus their interest and research on the area of syntactic change and the insight it provides on the nature of language. This volume represents the first major contribution on the mechanisms of syntactic change. The fourteen articles that make up this volume were selected from the Symposium on the Mechanisms of Syntactic Change held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1976, one of a series of three conferences sponsored by the National Science Foundation. These papers clearly demonstrate that the generative approach to the study of language does not explain diachronic processes in syntax. This collection is enlightening, provocative, and carefully documented with data drawn from a great variety of language families
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/750357
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477301043
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ER  -