TY  - BOOK
AU  - Birkenes,Magnus Breder
AU  - Breitbarth,Anne
AU  - Casaretto,Antje
AU  - Chatzopoulou,Katerina
AU  - Condoravdi,Cleo
AU  - Crisma,Paola
AU  - Deo,Ashwini
AU  - Gelderen,Elly van
AU  - Gergel,Remus
AU  - Gianollo,Chiara
AU  - Jäger,Agnes
AU  - Kasper,Simon
AU  - Lavidas,Nikolaos
AU  - Penka,Doris
AU  - Schneider,Carolin
AU  - Sommer,Florian
TI  - Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
T2  - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
SN  - 9783110352177
AV  - P142 .L263 2015
U1  - 417/.7 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Indo-European languages
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Linguistic change
KW  - Semantics
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Grammaticalization
KW  - Language Change
KW  - Semantic Change
KW  - Syntactic Change
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface and acknowledgements --; Table of contents --; 1. Language change at the syntax-semantics interface. Perspectives and challenges --; 2. Semantic and formal features: Feature economy in language change --; 3. Linking syntax and semantics of adnominal possession in the history of German --; 4. Most historically --; 5. The “indefinite article” from cardinal to operator to expletive --; 6. The Greek Septuagint and language change at the syntax-semantics interface: from null to “pleonastic” object pronouns --; 7. The agreement of collective nouns in the history of Ancient Greek and German --; 8. Vedic local particles at the syntaxsemantics interface --; 9. Aspect shifts in Indo-Aryan and trajectories of semantic change --; 10. The development of conditional should in English --; 11. The Greek Jespersen’s cycle: Renewal, stability and structural microelevation --; Subject index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers, indefinite articles, quantifiers, modal verbs, argument structure among others. The papers analyze diachronic evidence in the light of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory, addressing the crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked, and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110352306
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110352306
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110352306/original
ER  -