The Linguistic Cycle

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-975605-6
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 851 g

Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gelderen, van

van Gelderen, Elly

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Linguistic Cycles and Economy

- PART I

- 2: The Subject Agreement Cycle

- 3: The Object Agreement Cycle

- 4: The Copula Agreement Cycle

- PART II

- 5: The Dependent Marking Cycles

- 6: The DP Cycle

- PART III

- 7: TMA Cycles

- 8: The Negative Cycles

- PART IV

- 9: Typology and Parameters

- 10: Language Evolution

- 11: Conclusion

- References

Über Autor(innen)

Elly van Gelderen is Regents' Professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University.