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Syntactic effects of morphological change [electronic resource] / edited by David W. Lightfoot

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
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1 online resource (x, 409 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Lightfoot, David, 1945-
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction / David W. Lightfoot -- 2.The History of the Future / Anna Roussou / Ian Roberts -- 3.Case and Middle English Genitive Noun Phrases / Cynthia L. Allen -- 4.Split Constituents within NP in the History of English: Commentary on Allen / Zeljko Boskovic -- 5.Inflectional Morphology and the Loss of Verb-Second in English / Eric Haeberli -- 6.The Rise of the To-Dative in Middle English / Thomas McFadden -- 7.Double Objects and Morphological Triggers for Syntactic Case / Chiara Polo -- 8.Cue-Based Change: Inflection and Subjects in the History of Portuguese Infinitives / Acrisio Pires -- 9.Morphology and Null Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese / Cilene Rodrigues -- 10.Loss of Overt Wh-Movement in Old Japanese / Akira Watanabe -- 11.Changes in Subject Case Marking in Icelandic / Thorhallur Eythorsson -- 12.A Reinterpretation of the Loss of Verb-Second in Welsh / Dirk Bury -- 13.The Loss of IP-Scrambling in Portuguese: Clause Structure, Word-Order Variation and Change / Ana Maria Martins -- 14.Residual V-to-I / Dianne Jonas -- 15.Syntax and Morphology are Different: Commentary on Jonas / Stephen R. Anderson -- 16.Verb-Object Order in Old English: Variation as Grammatical Competition / Susan Pintzuk -- 17.VO or OV? That's the Underlying Question: Commentary on Pintzuk / Jairo Nunes -- 18.Movement, Morphology, and Learnability / Susana Bejar -- 19.Object Shift and Holmberg's Generalization in the History of Norwegian / John D. Sundquist -- 20.The Computational Study of Diachronic Linguistics / Partha Niyogi -- 21.Grammar Competition and Language Change / Charles D. Yang.
Summary
Discussing the nature and causes of language change, the authors of this text consider how far changes in morphology cause changes in syntax, and examine such phenomena from the perspective of syntactic and psycholinguistic theory.
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9780191719455 (ebook)
0191719455 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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