Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0521584027 ISBN 13: 9780521584029

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Riassunto

This 1997 volume of essays addresses the issues of syntactic and morphological change.

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Descrizione del libro

The contributors to this 1997 volume, including many of the leading figures in diachronic generative syntax, address the issue of how to model the phenomena of syntactic and morphological change within frameworks, in particular the Minimalist Program.

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Introduction: parameters and morphosyntactic change Ans van Kemenade and Nigel Vincent; Part I. Aspect, Argument Structure and Case Selection: 1. The interdependence of case, aspect and referentiality in the history of German Werner Abraham; 2. The rise of the article in the Germanic languages Julia Philippi; 3. The diachronic development of a modal verb of necessity Paola BenincÀ and Cecilia Poletto; 4. Auxiliary verbs in Old and Middle French Philip H. Miller; 5. Commentary on part I: aspect, argument structure and case selection Alessandra Tomaselli; Part II. Clitics: 6. The emergence of the D-system in Romance Nigel Vincent; 7. On two locations for complement clitic pronouns Maria Luisa Rivero; 8. On the integration of second position phenomena Josep M. Fontana; Part III. Verb Second and Comp: 9. Shifting triggers and diachronic reanalyses David Lightfoot; 10. Viewing change in progress Alison Henry; 11. Verb movement in Old and Middle English Anthony Kroch and Ann Taylor; 12. V2 and embedded topicalization in Old and Middle English Ans van Kemenade; 13. Qu'est-ce que ce que: the diachronic evolution of a French complementizer Laurie Zaring and Paul Hirschbühler; 14. The structure of parametric change, and V-movement in the history of English Anthony Warner; Part IV. Scrambling and Morphological Change: 15. Directionality and word order change in the history of English Ian Roberts; 16. On the relation between morphological and syntactic case Fred Weerman; 17. The rise of positional licensing Paul Kiparsky; The papers by Kiparsky, Roberts and Weerman: an epilogue Höskuldur Thrainsson; References; Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521584027
• ISBN 13: 9780521584029
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 558
• Redattore: Kemenade Ans Van, Vincent Nigel
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