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.
| ISBN: | 9783110488074 |
| Publication date: | 20th June 2016 |
| Author: | Chiara Gianollo, Agnes Jäger, Doris Penka |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter Mouton an imprint of De Gruyter |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 366 pages |
| Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs |
| Genres: |
Historical and comparative linguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Grammar, syntax and morphology |
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.
Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface features in the following genres: Historical and comparative linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology
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Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface was written by Chiara Gianollo, Agnes Jäger, Doris Penka and published by De Gruyter Mouton an imprint of De Gruyter
Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface has 366 pages
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