Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics – serie
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Arabic and the Case against Linearity in Historical Linguistics
Inbunden, 2023
1623 kr
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This book explores the long history of the Arabic language, from pre-Islamic Arabic via the Classical era of the Arabic grammarians up to the present day. While most traditional accounts have been dominated by a linear understanding of the development of Arabic, this book instead advocates a …
The Diachrony of Differential Object Marking in Romanian
Av Virginia Hill, Alexandru Mardale
Inbunden, 2021
1586 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the origins, development, and stabilization of differential object marking (DOM) in Romanian. DOM, a means by which a grammar distinguishes between objects based on semantic features such as animacy or definiteness, has been a fruitful area of …
Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit
The Syntax and Semantics of Adjectival Verb Forms
Av John J. Lowe
Inbunden, 2015
2753 kr
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This book examines several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the Rigveda, and the passages in which they appear, in terms of both their syntax and semantics. The Rigveda is an ancient collection of sacred Indian hymns, written in Vedic Sanskrit, and is one of the oldest extant …
Arabic Historical Dialectology
Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Approaches
Av Clive Holes
Inbunden, 2018
1880 kr
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This book, by a group of leading international scholars, outlines the history of the spoken dialects of Arabic from the Arab Conquests of the seventh century up to the present day. It specifically investigates the evolution of Arabic as a spoken language, in contrast to the many existing studies …
Diachrony and Dialects
Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy
Av Paola BenincÃ, Adam Ledgeway m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2894 kr
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This book examines diachronic change and diversity in the morphosyntax of Romance varieties spoken in Italy. These varieties offer an especially fertile terrain for research into language change, because of both the richness of dialectal variation and the length of the period of textual …
The Evolution of Functional Left Peripheries in Hungarian Syntax
Av Katalin E. Kiss, Katalin É. Kiss
Inbunden, 2014
2858 kr
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This book adopts a generative framework to investigate the diachronic syntax of Hungarian, one of only a handful of non-Indo-European languages with a documented history spanning more than 800 years. Professor É. Kiss and several internationally recognized experts in the field bring together the …
Syntactic Reconstruction and Proto-Germanic
Inbunden, 2014
2658 kr
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This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including verb position in main clauses, the syntax of the wh-system, and the (non-)occurrence of null pronominal subjects and objects. Although previous studies have looked at the lexical and phonological …
The Syntax of Old Romanian
Av Gabriela Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela Pană Dindelegan
Inbunden, 2016
2247 kr
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This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the syntax of old Romanian written in English and targeted at a non-Romanian readership. It draws on an extensive new corpus analysis of the period between the beginning of the sixteenth century, the date of the earliest attested Romanian …
Negation and Nonveridicality in the History of Greek
Inbunden, 2018
1955 kr
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This book provides a thorough investigation of the expression of sentential negation in the history of Greek. It draws on both quantitative data from texts dating from three major stages of vernacular Greek (Attic Greek, Koine, and Late Medieval Greek), and qualitative data from all stages of the …
Arabic Indefinites, Interrogatives, and Negators
A Linguistic History of Western Dialects
Inbunden, 2014
1880 kr
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This book traces the origins and development of the Arabic grammatical marker š/šī, which is found in interrogatives, negators, and indefinite determiners over a broad dialect area that stretches from the southern Levant to North Africa and includes dialects of Yemen and Oman. David Wilmsen draws …
Quantitative Historical Linguistics
A Corpus Framework
Av Gard B. Jenset, Barbara McGillivray
Inbunden, 2017
2139 kr
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This book is an innovative guide to quantitative, corpus-based research in historical and diachronic linguistics. Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivray argue that, although historical linguistics has been successful in using the comparative method, the field lags behind other branches of …
Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony
Inbunden, 2017
2708 kr
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This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on a case study of relative clauses in contemporary European Portuguese and earlier stages of Portuguese. Adriana Cardoso offers a comparative account of three linguistic phenomena in the synchrony and …
The Rise and Fall of Ergativity in Aramaic
Cycles of Alignment Change
Inbunden, 2016
2753 kr
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This book traces the changes in argument alignment that have taken place in Aramaic during its 3000-year documented history. Eastern Aramaic dialects first developed tense-conditioned ergative alignment in the perfect, which later developed into a past perfective. However, while some modern …
Verb Movement and Clause Structure in Old Romanian
Av Virginia Hill, Gabriela Alboiu
Inbunden, 2016
2633 kr
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The book provides a formal analysis of root and complement clauses in Old Romanian. Virginia Hill and Gabriela Alboiu examine the combination of Balkan syntactic patterns such as generalized subjunctive complementation on the one hand, and the Romance morphology that supplies complementizers and …
Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan
Av Uta Reinöhl
Inbunden, 2016
1754 kr
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This book examines historical changes in the grammar of the Indo-Aryan languages from the period of their earliest attestations in Vedic Sanskrit (around 1000 bc) to contemporary Hindi. Uta Reinöhl focuses specifically on the rise of configurational structure as a by-product of the …
From Latin to Romance
Morphosyntactic Typology and Change
Häftad, 2015
659 kr
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This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to the Romance languages. The emerging languages underwent changes in three fundamental areas involving the noun phrase, verb phrase, and the sentence. The impact of the changes can be seen in the reduction of …
Word Order Change
Av CARDOSO MARTINS, Ana Maria Martins m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2186 kr
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This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax. Word order is at the core of natural language grammatical systems, linking syntax with prosody and with semantics and pragmatics. The chapters in this volume use the tools provided by the generative theory …
Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax
Av TRUSWELL MATHIEU, Eric Mathieu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2564 kr
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The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change at different granularities. The language-particular component of a grammar is now usually assumed to be nothing more than the specification of the grammatical properties of a set of lexical items. Accordingly, grammar change must …
The Development of Latin Clause Structure
A Study of the Extended Verb Phrase
Inbunden, 2017
2186 kr
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This book examines Latin word order, and in particular the relative ordering of i) lexical verbs and direct objects (OV vs VO) and ii) auxiliaries and non-finite verbs (VAux vs AuxV). In Latin these elements can freely be ordered with respect to each other, whereas the present-day Romance languages …
Constructionalization and Constructional Changes
Av Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Graeme Trousdale
Häftad, 2016
653 kr
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In this book Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the level of the phrase, clause, and complex sentence. Until now it has been mainly synchronic. The authors use it …
Syntactic Reconstruction and Proto-Germanic
Häftad, 2016
653 kr
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This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including verb position in main clauses, the syntax of the wh-system, and the (non-)occurrence of null pronominal subjects and objects. Although previous studies have looked at the lexical and phonological …
Transitive Nouns and Adjectives
Evidence from Early Indo-Aryan
Av John J. Lowe
Inbunden, 2017
2333 kr
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This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon which, according to some categorizations of word classes, should not occur. John Lowe shows that most transitive nouns and adjectives attested in early …
Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective
Inbunden, 2018
2370 kr
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This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in which the same pathways of …
Verb Second in Medieval Romance
Av Sam Wolfe
Inbunden, 2018
2045 kr
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This volume provides the first book-length study of the controversial topic of Verb Second and related properties in a range of Medieval Romance varieties. It presents an examination and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data from Old French, Occitan, Sicilian, Venetian, Spanish, and …
Word Order and Parameter Change in Romanian
A Comparative Romance Perspective
Inbunden, 2019
2092 kr
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The book provides a comprehensive description and in-depth analysis of the major word order changes that took place in the clausal and the nominal domains in the transition from old to modern Romanian. The data are set in a comparative Romance perspective, with attention also paid to the impact of …
Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages
Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives
Inbunden, 2019
1865 kr
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This book presents a thorough investigation of the main diachronic changes that have taken place in the palatal sounds of the Romance languages, as well as their current patterns of synchronic variation. André Zampaulo draws on extensive data not only from diachronic sources, but also from a range …
Referential Null Subjects in Early English
Inbunden, 2019
1998 kr
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This book offers a large-scale quantitative investigation of referential null subjects as they occur in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English. Using corpus linguistic methods, and drawing on five corpora of early English, it empirically examines the occurrence of subjectless finite clauses in more …
Indefinites between Latin and Romance
Inbunden, 2018
1623 kr
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This book investigates the syntactic and semantic development of a selection of indefinite pronouns and determiners (such as aliquis 'some', nullus 'no', and nemo 'no one') between Latin and the Romance languages. Although these elements have undergone significant diachronic change since the …
Clause Structure and Word Order in the History of German
Av JAGER ET AL, Agnes Jäger m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2705 kr
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This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading scholars in the field survey a range of topics and offer new insights into central aspects of clause structure and word order, outlining the different stages of their historical development. …
Cycles in Language Change
Av Miriam Bouzouita, Anne Breitbarth m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2139 kr
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This volume explores the multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change from a wide range of empirical perspectives. The notion of 'linguistic cycle' has long been recognized as being relevant to the description of many processes of language change. In grammaticalization, a given linguistic form …
