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Beschreibung
Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers, indefinite articles, quantifiers, modal verbs, argument structure among others. The papers analyze diachronic evidence in the light of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory, addressing the crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked, and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.
Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers, indefinite articles, quantifiers, modal verbs, argument structure among others. The papers analyze diachronic evidence in the light of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory, addressing the crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked, and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.
Über den Autor
Chiara Gianollo and Agnes Jäger, Universität zu Köln, Germany; Doris Penka, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft, Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: VII
359 S.
ISBN-13: 9783110352177
ISBN-10: 3110352176
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Redaktion: Gianollo, Chiara
Penka, Doris
Jäger, Agnes
Herausgeber: Chiara Gianollo/Agnes Jäger/Doris Penka
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Hersteller: De Gruyter
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Maße: 236 x 160 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Chiara Gianollo (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.11.2014
Gewicht: 0,702 kg
Artikel-ID: 105346338

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