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An introduction to the grammar of English : syntactic arguments and socio-historical background
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ISBN: 9027225885 9789027225863 9027225869 1588112004 Year: 2002 Publisher: Amsterdam : Benjamins,

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This Introduction provides a lively and clearly written textbook. It introduces basic concepts of grammar in a format which inspires the reader to use linguistic arguments. The style of the book is engaging and examples from poetry, jokes, and puns illustrate grammatical concepts.The focus is on syntactic analysis and evidence. However, special topic sections contribute sociolinguistic and historical reasons behind prescriptive rules such as the bans on split infinitives, dangling participles, and preposition stranding.The book is structured for a semester-long course. It provides exercises, keys to those exercises, and sample exams. It also includes a comprehensive glossary and suggestions for further reading.


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The linguistic cycle : language change and the language faculty
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ISBN: 9780199756049 9780199756056 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.


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The diachrony of verb meaning : aspect and argument structure
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ISBN: 9781315180335 1315180332 9781138747104 1138747106 9781351719018 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group


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The linguistic cycle : economy and renewal in historical linguistics
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ISBN: 9781032224329 9781032224336 9781003272564 1032224320 Year: 2024 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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"Cyclical language change is a linguistic process by which a word, phrase, or part of the grammar loses its meaning or function and is then replaced by another. This can even happen on the level of an entire language, which can experience a change in the language family it is a part of. This new text is a comprehensive introduction to this phenomenon, the mechanisms underlying it, and the relations between the different types of cycles: Elly van Gelderen reviews the subject widely and holistically, defining key terms and comprehensively presenting diverse theoretical perspectives and empirical findings"--


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Analyzing Syntax through Texts : Old, Middle, and Early Modern English
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ISBN: 9781474420396 9781474420372 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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German : syntactic problems - problematic syntax
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ISBN: 3484303743 Year: 1997 Volume: 374 Publisher: Tübingen Max Niemeyer

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Internal and External Causes of Language Change : The Naxos Papers.
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ISBN: 3031309766 3031309758 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,

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Internal and External Causes of Language Change : The Naxos Papers
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ISBN: 9783031309762 9783031309755 9783031309779 9783031309786 3031309766 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This volume collects ten studies that propose modern methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change in the case of various morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic characteristics. The studies were first presented in the fourth, fifth and sixth workshops at the "Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe" summer schools, organized on the island of Naxos, Cyclades, Greece and online between 2019 and 2021. The book is divided into two parts that both focus on modern tools and methodologies of analyzing and accounting for language change. The first part focuses on common directions of change in Indo-European languages and beyond, and the second part emphasizes explanations that reveal the role of language contact. The volume promotes a dialogue between approaches to language change having their starting point in structural and typological aspects of the history of languages on the one hand, and approaches concentrating on external factors on the other. Throughthis dialogue, the volume enriches knowledge on the contrast or complementarity of internally- and externally-motivated causes of language change. Nikolaos Lavidas is Associate Professor of Diachronic Linguistics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research interests lie in the areas of language change, (historical) language contact, historical corpora, and syntax-semantics interface. Alexander Bergs is Full Professor and Chair of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. His research interests include language variation and change, constructional approaches to language, the role of context in language, the syntax/pragmatics interface and cognitive poetics. Elly van Gelderen is Regents Professor at Arizona State University, USA. She is a syntactician interested in language change. Her work shows how regular syntactic change (grammaticalization and the linguistic cycle) provides insight into the faculty of language. Ioanna Sitaridou is a Professor of Spanish and Historical Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, UK. Her main areas of research are comparative and diachronic syntax of the Romance languages, in particular 13th Century Spanish; and dialectal Greek, especially Pontic Greek. .

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