Diachronic Syntax
Models and Mechanisms
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This book demonstrates the pivotal position of historical syntax within the larger domain of research into the nature, use, and acquisition of language. It shows how current work in historical syntax is responsive to theoretical advances in linguistic theory, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and theories of language use, as well as to less adjacent fields such as statistical techniques and evolutionary biology.
1. Syntactic Change: Theory and Method, Susan Pintzuk, George Tsoulas, and Anthony Warner
Part I: Frameworks for the Understanding of Change
2. Competition and Correspondence in Syntactic Change: Null Arguments in Latin and Romance, Nigel Vincent
3. Jespersen's Cycle Revisited: Formal Properties of Grammaticalization, Ans van Kemenade
4. Evolutionary Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax, Ted Briscoe
Part II: The Comparative Basis of Diachronic Syntax
5. Adjuncts and the Syntax of Subjects in Old and Middle English, Eric Haeberli
6. Verb-Object Order in Early Middle English, Anthony Kroch and Ann Taylor
7. Null Subjects in Middle English Existentials, Alexander Williams
Part III: Mechanisms of Syntactic Change
8. Polarity Items in Romance: Underspecification and Lexical Change, Ana Maria Martins
9. Relabelling, John Whitman
10. The Value of Definite Determiners from Old Spanish to Modern Spanish, Montse Batllori and Francesc Roca
11. From OV to VO in Swedish, Lars-Olof Delsing
12. The Evolution of Do-Support in English Imperatives, Chung-hye Han
13. Interacting Movements in the History of Icelandic, Torbjorg Hrarsdottir
14. Verb Movement in Slavonic Conditionals, David Willis
Susan Pintzuk and George Tsoulas and Anthony Warner