Continuity and Change in Grammar

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  • Author : Anne Breitbarth
  • Release Date : 2010
  • Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
  • Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Pages : 369
  • ISBN 13 : 9027255423
  • File Size : 41,41 MB
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Continuity and Change in Grammar by Anne Breitbarth PDF Summary

Book Description: One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the "causes" of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the actuation problem: why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in other languages, under apparently similar conditions? The sixteen contributions to the present volume each aim to elucidate various aspects of this problem, including: What processes can be identified as the drivers of change? How central are syntax-external (phonological, lexical or contact-based) factors in triggering syntactic change? And how can all of these factors be reconciled with the actuation problem? Exploring data from a wide range of languages from both a formal and a functional perspective, this book promises to be of interest to advanced students and researchers in historical linguistics, syntax and their intersection."

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