This volume focuses on the role of text-type comparison for the understanding of language change with reference to syntax. Documenting effective syntactic evolution and change is up against the "bad data" problem, which can be mitigated by comparing results from different types of text. The chapters delve into the measurable effects that text-type comparison has on establishing the chronology and causal vectors of syntactic evolution and change, with special reference to word-order, subject and person expression, and negation. Such comparisons thus also highlight the interplay of structural and sociolinguistic conditions of change.
| ISBN: | 9783119147910 |
| Publication date: | 2nd November 2026 |
| Author: | Pierre Larrivée, Francesco Pinzin |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter Mouton an imprint of De Gruyter |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs |
| Genres: |
Computational and corpus linguistics Historical and comparative linguistics Grammar, syntax and morphology Linguistics |
This volume focuses on the role of text-type comparison for the understanding of language change with reference to syntax. Documenting effective syntactic evolution and change is up against the "bad data" problem, which can be mitigated by comparing results from different types of text.
Syntactic Change Through Text-Types features in the following genres: Computational and corpus linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Linguistics
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Syntactic Change Through Text-Types was written by Pierre Larrivée, Francesco Pinzin and published by De Gruyter Mouton an imprint of De Gruyter
Syntactic Change Through Text-Types has 240 pages
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