Diachronic Syntax - Models and Mechanisms

This collection of studies on the ways languages change structurally over time brings together current research, approaching language change from different formal perspectives. The contributions are contextualized in the introduction and provide a state-of-the-art account of current understanding of syntactic change from a generative perspective.

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• Authors: Susan (Edited By Pintzuk, Susan Tsoulas Pintzuk
• Assisted by: Susan Pintzuk (Editor), George Tsoulas (Editor), Anthony Warner (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.02.2001
• EAN: 9780198250272
• ISBN: 978-0-19-825027-2
• No. of pages: 392
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics