Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-925068-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

This book presents the latest thinking on the nature and causes of language change. The authors consider how far changes in morphology (e.g. inflectional word endings) cause changes in syntax (e.g. word order). They examine such phenomena from the perspective of current syntactic and psycholinguistic theory, in particular addressing the issues raised by the hypothesis that grammatical change is driven by how children acquire language. Theoretical questions are discussed in the context of change in a wide variety of languages over a range of periods. The authors are distinguished scholars from the USA, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and the UK.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lightfoot, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: David W. Lightfoot: Introduction

- Part I: Morphologically Driven Changes

- 2: Ian Roberts and Anna Roussou: The History of the Future

- 3: Cynthia L. Allen: Case and Middle English Genitive Noun Phrases

- 4: Zeljko Boskovic: Split Constituents Within NP in the History of English: Commentary on Allen

- 5: Eric Haeberli: Inflectional Morphology and the Loss of Verb-Second in English

- 6: Thomas McFadden: The Rise of the to Dative in Middle English

- 7: Chiara Polo: Double Objects and Morphological Triggers for Syntactic Case

- 8: Acrisio Pires: Cue-Based Change: Inflection and Subjects in the History of Portuguese Infinitives

- 9: Cilene Rodrigues: Loss of Verbal Morphology and the Status of Referential Null Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese

- 10: Akira Watanabe: Loss of Overt Wh-Movement in Old Japanese

- 11: Thorhallur Eythorsson: Changes in Subject Case Marking in Icelandic

- Part II: Indirect Links Between Morphology and Syntax

- 12: Dirk Bury: A Reinterpretation of the loss of verb-second in Welsh

- 13: Ana Maria Martins: The Loss of IP-Scrambling in Portuguese: Clause Structure, Word Order Variation and Change

- Part III: Independent Changes in Movement Operations

- 14: Dianne Jonas: Residual V-to-I

- 15: Stephen R. Anderson: Syntax and Morphology are Different: Commentary on Jonas

- 16: Susan Pintzuk: Verb-Object Order in Old English: Variation as Grammatical Competition

- 17: Jairo Nunes: VO or OV? That's the Underlying Question: Commentary on Pintzuk

- 18: Susana Bejar: Movement, Morphology, and Learnability

- 19: John D. Sundquist: Object Shift and Holmberg's Generalization in the History of Norwegian

- Part IV: Computer Simulations

- 20: Partha Niyogi: The Computational Study of Diachronic Linguistics

- 21: Charles D. Yang: Grammar Competition and Language Change

Über Autor(innen)

David W. Lightfoot is Dean of the Graduate School at Georgetown University. Until recently he was Professor of Linguistics and Associate Director of the Neural and Cognitive Science Program at the University of Maryland with a joint appointment as Professor of Linguistics at the University of Reading. His books include Principles of Diachronic Syntax (CUP 1979), The Language Lottery: Toward a Biology of Grammars (MIT Press, 1982), How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change (MIT Press, 1991), and The Development of Language: Acquisition, Change, and Evolution (Blackwell, 1999).