Syntactic Features and the Limits of Syntactic Change

434 Pages·2021·4.897 MB·English

by  Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson and Thórhallur Eythórsson

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Contents
SeriesPreface vii
Listofabbreviations ix
Thecontributors xv
1. Introduction:Syntacticfeaturesandthelimitsofsyntacticchange 1
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PART I: THE LEFT PERIPHERY
2. Degreesemantics,polarity,andthegrammaticalizationof
comparativeoperatorsintocomplementizers 15
JuliaBacskai-Atkari
3. CyclicchangesinHungarianrelativeclauses 40
JuliaBacskai-AtkariandÉvaDékány
4. Diachronicchangeandfeatureinstability:ThecyclesofFin
inRomanianobligatorycontrol 64
GabrielaAlboiuandVirginiaHill
5. NullsubjectsinMiddleLowGerman:Diachronicstability
.de andchange 84
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10. Investigatingthepastofthefuturatepresent 210
ElizabethCowper,DanielCurrieHall,BronwynM.Bjorkman,
RebeccaTollan,andNeilBanerjee
PART III: CASE MARKING
11. Fromlexicaltodependent:ThecaseoftheGreekdative 241
ElenaAnagnostopoulouandChristinaSevdali
12. ThenatureandoriginofsyntacticergativityinAustronesian
languages 265
EdithAldridge
13. Featuraldynamicsinmorphosyntacticchange 301
IrisEddaNowensteinandAntonKarlIngason
PART IV: SYNTACTIC RECONSTRUCTION
14. Syntacticreconstructionbasedonlinguisticfossils:
ObjectmarkinginUralic 323
KatalinÉ.Kiss
15. Regularsyntacticchangeandsyntacticreconstruction 348
MarkHaleandMadelynKissock
References 367
IndexofLanguages 403
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Series Preface
Modern diachronic linguistics has important contacts with other subdisciplines,
notably first-language acquisition, learnability theory, computational linguistics,
sociolinguistics,andthetraditionalphilologicalstudyoftexts.Itisnowrecognized
in the wider field that diachronic linguistics can make a novel contribution to
linguistictheory,to historical linguistics, andarguably to cognitivesciencemore
widely.
This series provides a forum for work in both diachronic and historical
linguistics, including work on change in grammar, sound, and meaning within
andacrosslanguages;synchronicstudiesoflanguagesinthepast;anddescriptive
historiesofoneormorelanguages.Itisintendedtoreflectandencouragethelinks
betweenthesesubjectsandfieldssuchasthosementionedabove.
Thegoaloftheseriesistopublishhigh-qualitymonographsandcollectionsof
papers in diachronic linguistics generally, i.e. studies focusing on change in
linguistic structure, and/or change in grammars, which are also intended to
make a contribution to linguistic theory, by developing and adopting a current
theoretical model, by raising wider questions concerning the nature of language
change, or by developing theoretical connections with other areas of linguistics
and cognitive science as listed above. There is no bias towards a particular
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List of abbreviations
1 firstperson
2 secondperson
3 thirdperson
 ablative
 absolutive
 accusative
 active(Voice)
 adverb
 Agreement
 aorist
 applicative
ASG Anglo-SaxonGospels
 aspect
Att. EpistulaeadAtticum
Aug. Augustine
 Auxiliary
BBL BirchbarkLetters
BCC Borer–ChomskyConjecture
Boeth. Boethius
BP BrazilianPortuguese
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 dative
DEF definitearticle
 definite
. definiteobjectagreementonverb
 demonstrative
 diminutive
DM DistributedMorphology
DN DoubleNegation
DO Directobject
 differentialobjectmarker
Dor. Doric
DP DeterminerPhrase
DS DativeSubstitution
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E Eastern
EA externalargument
EC ExhaustiveControl
ECDR ElsewhereConditionDeathRattle
ECSS ElsewhereConditionSerialSearch
 elativecase
 emphatic
ENHG EarlyNewHighGerman
EP EuropeanPortuguese
EPP ExtendedProjectionPrinciple
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