Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 699 g
Language Change and the Language Faculty
Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 699 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-975604-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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.
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- Chapter 1: Linguistic Cycles and Economy
- Part I
- Chapter 2: The Subject Agreement Cycle
- Chapter 3: The Object Agreement Cycle
- Chapter 4: The Copula Agreement Cycle
- Part II
- Chapter 5: The Dependent Marking Cycles
- Chapter 6: The DP Cycle
- Part III
- Chapter 7: TMA Cycles
- Chapter 8: The Negative Cycles
- Part IV
- Chapter 9: Typology and Parameters
- Chapter 10: Language Evolution
- Chapter 11: Conclusion
- References
