Clause Structure and Language Change

Zusatztext The book contains some excellent reassessments of Verb-second data available earlier as well as some new data on this elusive phenomenon...this is an extremely relevant collection of papers. Klappentext The Principles-and-Parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount of work in comparative syntax over the last decade or so. A natural consequence of the growth in synchronic comparative work has been a renewed interest in questions of diachronic syntax! and this collection testifies to that trend. These papers focus on questions of clause structure which have become a central theme of theoretical work since the pioneering work in the late 1980s by Chomsky! Pollock! and others. The languages studied by an international roster of contributors include all the major Romance and Germanic languages. This volume is of central importance for anyone working in theoretical! comparative! or historical syntax. Zusammenfassung A collection of previously unpublished papers on a specific topic in historical linguistics - clause structure. These papers testify to the recent renewal of interest in diachronic syntax, a consequence of the new emphasis on comparative issues in the principles and parameters framework.

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• Authors: Adrian (Late Professor of Linguistics Battye, Adrian Roberts Battye
• Assisted by: Adrian Battye (Editor), Adrian (Late Professor of Linguistics Battye (Editor), Battye Adrian (Editor), Ian Roberts (Editor), Ian (Professor of Linguistics Roberts (Editor), Roberts Ian (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.1995
• EAN: 9780195086324
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508632-4
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; Oxford Studies in Comparative; Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Germanic & Scandinavian languages, Germanic and Scandinavian languages