Parameter theory and linguistic change /
This book focuses on some of the most important issues in historical syntax. In a series of close examinations of languages from old Egyptian to modern Afrikaans, leading scholars present new work on Afro-Asiatic, Latin and Romance, Germanic, Albanian, Celtic, Indo-Iranian, and Japanese. The book re...
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Oxford :
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| Series: | Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Parameter theory and dynamics of change / Charlotte Galves, Sonia Cyrino and Ruth Lopes
- Parameters in Old Romance word order : a comparative minimalist analysis / Guido Mensching
- Microparameters in the verbal complex : Middle High German and some modern varieties / Christopher D. Sapp
- Language acquisition in German and phrase structure change in Yiddish / Joel C. Wallenberg
- Extraposition of restrictive relative clauses in the history of Portuguese / Adriana Cardoso
- Doubling-que embedded constructions in Old Portuguese : a diachronic perspective / Ilza Ribeiro and Maria A. Torres Morais
- Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish : similar changes in Romania Nova / Mary Aizawa Kato
- Macroparametric change and the synthetic-analytic dimension : the case of Ancient Egyptian / Chris H. Reintges
- A diachronic shift in the expression of person / Judy B. Bernstein and Raffaella Zanuttini
- The formal syntax of alignment change / John Whitman and Yuko Yanagida
- The diachronic development of the Irish comparative particle / Elliott Lash
- Deictic locatives, emphasis and metalinguistic negation / Ana Maria Martins
- Negative changes : three factors and the diachrony of Afrikaans negation / Theresa Biberauer and Hedde Zeijlstra
- Romanian "can" : change in parametric settings / Virginia Hill
- Prepositional genitives in Romance and the issue of parallel development : from Latin to Old French / Chiara Gianollo
- Convergence in parametric phylogenies : homoplasy or principled explanation? / Giuseppe Longobardi
- Macroparameters and minimalism : a programme for comparative research / Ian Roberts.