Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change

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David Lightfoot
Oxford University Press, 2002 - 409 páginas
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.
 

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The History of the Future
23
Case and Middle English Genitive Noun Phrases
57
57
79
Inflectional Morphology and the Loss of VerbSecond in English
88
The Rise of the ToDative in Middle English
115
Double Objects and Morphological Triggers for Syntactic Case
124
Inflection and Subjects in the History
143
Morphology and Null Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese
160
Clause Structure
232
Residual VtoI
251
Commentary on Jonas
271
Commentary on Pintzuk
300
Movement Morphology and Learnability
307
Object Shift and Holmbergs Generalization
326
The Computational Study of Diachronic Linguistics
351
Grammar Competition and Language Change
367

Loss of Overt WhMovement in Old Japanese
179
Changes in Subject CaseMarking in Icelandic
196
A Reinterpretation of the Loss of VerbSecond in Welsh
215
References
381
160
405
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A-movement agreement analysis appositives argued assume auxiliary c-commanding Cambridge case-marking century Chomsky clitic complement constructions dative derived diachronic discussion double objects DP Object Shift empty expletives evidence examples fact Faroese feature focus full DP Object functional genitive Germanic grammar head-initial Heian Period Holmberg hypothesis infinitival inflected infinitives João Kroch and Taylor language acquisition language change learner lexical licensed Lightfoot loss of V2 main verb Mainland Scandinavian Middle English Middle Norwegian Middle Welsh modals Modern Icelandic morphology nominative non-finite non-finite verb Norwegian noun null subjects Old English Old Portuguese optional overt wh-movement parameter particle patterns Pintzuk preverbal Principles and Parameters pronouns proposed reanalysis Roberts Scandinavian languages scrambling Section sentences Shetland Dialect speakers Spec structure syntactic syntax texts thelo thematic role theory Thráinsson tion to-dative trigger Type University variation verb movement verbal West Flemish wh-movement wh-phrase word order word-order þæt

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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).

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TítuloSyntactic Effects of Morphological Change
Oxford linguistics
Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change, David Lightfoot
EditorDavid Lightfoot
Ediçãoilustrada, reimpressão
EditoraOxford University Press, 2002
ISBN0199250693, 9780199250691
Número de páginas409 páginas
  
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